HIPAA Privacy and Security Basics for Employees in the Healthcare Sector
45 min! Run Time
Employees
only
of Completion
What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
This course gives healthcare employees the HIPAA privacy and security basics they need to protect patient information in clinical and patient-care settings.
What this course covers:
- Rules and responsibilities for maintaining the confidentiality of protected health information (PHI)
- The Privacy and Security Rules under HIPAA's Title II
- Security measures for protecting PHI, including electronic PHI (ePHI)
- How to help prevent privacy breaches
Designed for healthcare workers who handle PHI as part of their day-to-day roles.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
HIPAA Privacy and Security Basics for Employees in the Healthcare Sector
Frequently Asked Questions
Employees working in clinical and patient-care settings, where PHI is handled continuously and in the presence of other patients and visitors.
The Privacy Rule and the Security Rule — the two components that govern how patient information must be kept confidential and how electronic records must be protected.
Practical safeguards for PHI in a care environment: securing workstations, controlling who can see screens and records, and protecting information on portable devices.
Because the risks differ from an office. Conversations happen in shared spaces, records move between rooms, and staff work under time pressure — the conditions where inadvertent disclosure is most likely.
No. It covers the rules and responsibilities from the ground up, framed around patient-care work rather than regulatory theory.
This training course is designed for healthcare workers who handle protected health-related information (PHI) in a clinical or patient-care setting. It outlines the rules and responsibilities of healthcare workers to maintain confidentiality of PHI under the Privacy and Security Rules of HIPAA's Title II. It also discusses security measures for protecting PHI, including electronic "ePHI," in order to prevent privacy breaches.