HIPAA For General Employees: HIPAA and HITECH Overview
5 min! Run Time
Employees
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What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
HIPAA and HITECH are pivotal regulations governing healthcare data in the United States. This overview explains both laws and how they affect your role in providing care.
What this course covers:
- The purpose of HIPAA and the protections it introduced
- How the HITECH Act builds on HIPAA
- Why safeguarding patient privacy matters
- How these laws shape your responsibilities
Designed for general employees who handle healthcare data.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
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Frequently Asked Questions
Both govern healthcare data in the United States. HIPAA established the framework in 1996; HITECH strengthened it in 2009 as records moved into electronic systems.
The purpose of HIPAA, what it protects, and how both laws affect your role in providing care — the grounding for the rest of the series.
Because the obligations follow the information, not the job title. Staff outside clinical roles routinely handle protected health information.
Here. The overview sets up the modules on protected health information, the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule that follow.
None. It introduces both laws from first principles for staff without a compliance background.
