HIPAA For General Employees: HIPAA Privacy Rule
9 min! Run Time
Employees
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Provided
What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
The HIPAA Privacy Rule protects the privacy of protected health information (PHI) and electronic PHI (ePHI). This course digs into the details and how they apply to your role.
What this course covers:
- Protections the Privacy Rule offers patients
- Requirements for covered entities and business associates
- How PHI and ePHI must be handled
- How the rule affects your role in patient care
Designed for general employees responsible for protecting patient information.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
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Frequently Asked Questions
The privacy of protected health information and electronic protected health information. This module examines the protections in detail and how they apply to your role.
ePHI is protected health information held or transmitted electronically. It attracts additional requirements, which is why the Security Rule exists alongside the Privacy Rule.
Directly. The Privacy Rule governs everyday decisions about what may be shared, with whom and in what circumstances.
No. A separate module in the series covers the Security Rule and the digital threats it addresses.
It digs into the specifics rather than summarising, on the basis that general employees apply the Privacy Rule more often than any other part of HIPAA.
