HIPAA: 6. The Privacy Rule - Disclosures
11 min! Run Time
Employees
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What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
HIPAA rests on two main components: the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule. This course focuses on the disclosures portion of the Privacy Rule, offering a practical summary for the average employee.
What this course covers:
- What counts as a disclosure of PHI
- Permitted disclosures under the Privacy Rule
- When PHI can be shared without authorization
- How disclosure rules play out day to day
Note: this course summarizes the disclosures portion, not the entire Privacy Rule. Built for frontline staff.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
Frequently Asked Questions
Any release of protected health information outside your organisation — including informal ones. Conversations and forwarded messages are disclosures as much as formal record transfers.
The Privacy Rule permits a defined set without patient authorization. Part six works through the categories and the reasoning behind them.
The course gives you the questions to ask before releasing anything. Uncertainty is a reason to pause and check, not a defence after the fact.
No. Part six teaches the rule; part eleven answers common questions about applying it in specific everyday situations.
Any employee who shares patient information as part of their work, which in most healthcare organisations means nearly everyone.
