HIPAA For General Employees: Protected Health Information
6 min! Run Time
Employees
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Provided
What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
Understanding protected health information (PHI) is a major part of HIPAA. Not everything you encounter is PHI, and knowing the difference helps you respect patients and stay within the law.
What this course covers:
- What protected health information (PHI) actually is
- Who is responsible for safeguarding it
- When it is acceptable to disclose PHI
Designed for general employees who come into contact with patient information.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
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Frequently Asked Questions
No, and that is the point of this module. Not everything you encounter is protected health information, and knowing the difference matters.
Because treating everything as PHI is unworkable, while treating nothing as PHI is a violation. The module gives you a reliable way to tell.
The combination of health information with identifiers that connect it to a specific person. The module works through what qualifies.
Recognising PHI is what allows you to protect it consistently — and to avoid the casual disclosures that undermine patient trust.
It follows the HIPAA and HITECH overview and precedes the Privacy and Security Rule modules, which assume you can identify PHI.
