HIPAA Privacy for Healthcare Plans and Employers Online Safety Training
This HIPAA Privacy for Healthcare Plans and Employers online safety training course is convenient and easy to use. Individual employees can train at a time that is convenient for them, at their own pace. The system automatically tracks their progress in the course along with any completed quiz scores and bookmarks the learner’s place to make it easy to resume training if training is interupted. Upon completion of the course, and a 100% score, the employee will then be able to print a certificate of completion.
Employers no longer need to pull large groups of employees off the job to complete their safety training.
This online training course can help you:
Meet compliance-based safety requirements
Reduce risks of accidents and injury on and off the job
Lower insurance premiums, workers compensation claims and lost work hours
Improve employee morale and retention
An industry specific course, focusing on the HIPAA Privacy issues that are specific to employees of Health Plans, Healthcare Clearinghouses, Group Health Plans, and employees who may not be directly employed in the medical field, but must still be trained in the proper handling of PHI. Although employers are not covered entities under HIPAA, the course also covers the ways employers are impacted by the HIPAA Privacy Rule. This course was designed to cover the HIPAA "Administrative Simplification" standards and regulations for the handling of Protected Health Information (PHI). The training focuses on requirements for the protection of PHI under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and also covers additional requirements for the protection of electronic PHI under the HIPAA Security Rule.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the purpose and background of the HIPAA Privacy Rule as well as the organizations that are influenced by this Rule
Describe the security regulations that apply to covered entities under the HIPAA Security Standards "Final Rule"
Identify acceptable uses and disclosures of PHI
Define Plan Sponsor and describe which PHI is acceptable to be revealed to a Plan Sponsor
Explain summary health information and de-identifying and how they relate to the HIPAA Privacy Rule
Recognize the personal rights that each individual possesses regarding his or her PHI
Identify the flexibility and limitations that are given to health plans in creating their own privacy procedures
Distinguish between what a covered entity should or should not do when handling PHI
Determine in what ways an employer should be concerned with the HIPAA Privacy Rule
Primary Regulations:
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
