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.

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:

	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 requirements
	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

HIPAA Training for Security: Target Audience