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.

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.

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 Security rule and how to create a framework for initiating and working towards a blueprint for Security compliance and regular audit to avoid violation of regulations. We examine all defined HIPAA security specifications and identify options and solutions available to secure health care entities.

The HIPAA security compliance training flow and content accounts for the three security domains defined within the Security Rule. The HIPAA security domain topics are addressed in the context of the required implementation specifications and associated security technologies and policies. Each lesson is focused with health care examples, templates and solutions that will be valuable as your organization considers options to secure the enterprise.

From this training you will learn the following about HIPAA:

• Understand new updates to HIPAA rule due to HITECH which is part of ARRA
• 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.
• Review core elements of a security policy document for a health care entity.
• Identify core elements of a compliance plan that every health care entity is required to develop for business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Cross walk between NIST, SOX, ISO and HIPAA requirements.

HIPAA Training for Security: Target Audience

• All key members of a health care provider compliance team
• All Business Associates required to comply under HITECH
• IT Professionals servicing Healthcare Industry
• Chief Information Officers and Security Compliance Officer of covered entities
• Lawyers involved in healthcare
• Computer security technical staff of any organization that retains personal healthcare information
• Senior network engineers
• Database administrators
• Security staff of computer service providers to medical organizations
• Consultants who provide security advice to healthcare organizations
• IT Vendors to healthcare industry