The focus of this 4 days HIPAA compliance classroom training program is to better understand the implications of HIPAA legislation and identify critical compliance requirements for your business/client. It 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 HIPAA Security compliance and regular audit to avoid violation of regulations.

Our Training includes changes to the HIPAA regulations due to Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act which is part of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and omnibus rule final changes. Our HIPAA Instructors are HIPAA consultants who help organizations meet the HIPAA audit checklist requirements issued by the DHHS. Learn from the Instructor what your next steps are to meet these newly issued audit requirements by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Office of e-Health Standards and Services.

In this training we also explain the relevance of HIPAA to information systems infrastructure and initiatives towards HIPAA security & privacy compliance.

This HIPAA compliance training will prepare you for HIPAA certification of Certified HIPAA Privacy Security Expert (CHPSE).

This training will give you advanced competency in designing, implementing, and administering comprehensive privacy and security protection programs in all types of healthcare organizations. 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 & processes within the organization in the handling of patient records.
• . Understand the changes to HIPAA rules due to ARRA 2009 HITECH Act.
• 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 an in-depth understanding of HIPAA Security, Privacy and Transaction rule.
• Understand who Business Associates are and what will they have to do to ensure HITECH HIPAA compliance.
• 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.
• Review specific requirements and implementation features within each security category.
• 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 all required and addressable HIPAA Security implementation specifications.
• Review core elements of a security policy document for a health care entity.
• Review specific requirements and implementation features within each security category.
• Identify core elements of a compliance plan that every health care entity is required to develop for business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Analyze international security standards, NIST, ISO’s 17799 and the BS 7799.
• Cross walk between NIST, SOX, ISO and HIPAA requirements.