The focus of this 4 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.

Training schedule for this HIPAA course is flexible, as can be completed in 4 full days OR few hours daily depending on your schedule and needs. Our HIPAA Instructor will contact you to finalize the training dates and time.

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). Our HIPAA Instructors are HIPAA consultants who help organizations meet the HIPAA audit checklist requirements issued by the DHHS. Learn from Instructor what your next steps are to meet these newly issued audit requirements by dept. of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Office of e-Health Standards and Services.

HIPAA Online Training for Security and Privacy: Learning Objectives

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 HIPAA Security compliance and regular audit to avoid violation of regulations. 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 HITECH due to ARRA 2009.
• 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 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 reguirements.

HIPAA Online Training for Security and Privacy: Target Audience

• All key members of a health care provider compliance team
• Compliance team for HIPAA Privacy and Security
• IT Professionals servicing Healthcare Industry
• Business Associates employees looking to comply with HITECH requirements
• Healthcare executives & Healthcare service bureau executives
• Chief Information Officers, Managers, Compliance officers, risk managers, Senior network engineers, Database administrators, Clinical physicians and office managers
• Lawyers involved in healthcare
• Pharmaceutical company executives and HIPAA compliance staff
• Insurance executives
• Clinical trial organization executives
• Computer security technical staff of any organization that retains personal healthcare information
• Consultants who provide security advice to healthcare organizations