HIPAA Privacy Compliance
30 min! Run Time
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What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
This comprehensive course focuses on HIPAA privacy compliance, covering every major aspect of how protected health information (PHI) must be handled by covered entities.
What this course covers:
- What PHI is and how covered entities must protect it
- The minimum necessary rule and incidental exposure
- Disclosures, exceptions for law enforcement, and emergencies
- Patient authorization, the privacy notice, and patient control
- The privacy official, reasonable safeguards, and penalties
Includes a 25-question post quiz so you can confirm every employee understands the privacy standard.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
For 22 years, TrainingABC has provided high quality employee training content to companies, schools and government organizations around the world. Currently, over 2000 organizations use Trainingabc courses in their training.
Our courses focus on topics like HR compliance, customer service and leadership take complex topics and make them simple by using video. With sleek, modern, high-definition video, the courses break the language of the topic down into layman's terms making it much easier for employees to understand and retain information.
HIPAA Privacy Compliance
Frequently Asked Questions
It works through every major aspect of HIPAA privacy rather than sampling it — what PHI is, how it must be handled, when it may be disclosed, and what patients are entitled to.
The requirement to limit PHI use and disclosure to the least amount needed for the purpose. It is one of the most frequently breached provisions, usually through oversharing rather than malice.
PHI overheard or glimpsed as a by-product of legitimate work. It is not automatically a violation, but it becomes one when reasonable safeguards were not in place.
Only in defined circumstances. The course sets out the exceptions and the emergency situations where disclosure is permitted without patient authorization.
Yes — what a valid authorization must contain, when one is required before PHI is used or released, and the situations where the rules allow you to proceed without one.
