Online Classroom Training (OCT) for Comprehensive HIPAA Privacy & Intermediate Security Training (level 1)

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/) to establish standards and requirements for the maintenance and transmission of health care information. The goal of HIPAA is to protect the security and confidentiality of electronic patient health information and cut the cost of print-based record transactions. Any organization that accesses, stores, maintains, or transmits patient-identifiable information is affected by the HIPAA legislation and is required by law to meet specified deadlines.

This training helps you better understand HIPAA’s Administrative Simplification Act as well as how to create a framework for initiating and working towards a blueprint for Privacy and Security compliance and regular audit to avoid violation of HIPAA laws. From this training you will learn the following about HIPAA:

	Understand what HIPAA means, how it affects your organization, and what significant changes in policies, procedures and processes within the organization in the handling of patient records
	Identify the main reasons behind HIPAA, specifically, to provide continuity/portability of health benefits to individuals between jobs; to combat fraud/abuse in health insurance and healthcare delivery; to reduce administrative costs in healthcare; to provide uniform standards for electronic healthcare transactions; and, to ensure security and privacy of patient health information
	Have a in-depth understand of HIPAA Security, privacy and Transaction rule
	Examine how implementing HIPAA will affect the way healthcare entities organize and staff to achieve and monitor compliance with patient privacy/confidentiality needs
	Understand the new Enforcement rule
	Step through how to plan and prepare for HIPAA compliance. HIPAA is about awareness first, assessment second and finally action focused on gaps identified
	Understand who business associates are and what will they have to do to ensure HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Training for Security, Privacy and Transaction: Target Audience