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, maintain, or transmit patient-identifiable information is affected by the HIPAA legislation and is required by law to meet specified deadlines.

The focus of this 5 days 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.

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

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
	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
	Understand who business associates are and what will they have to do to ensure 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
	Analyze international security standards, NIST, ISO’s 17799 and the BS 7799
	Cross walk between NIST, SOX, ISO and HIPAA reguirements
	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

HIPAA Training for Security, Privacy and Transaction: Target Audience