HIPAA: 1. The Basics
7 min! Run Time
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What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
HIPAA — the acronym alone strikes fear in the medical industry and beyond, and no wonder: violation settlements can cost an organization millions.
What this course covers:
- Background on how and why HIPAA became law
- Who must comply with HIPAA rules
- How to tell whether the rules apply to you
- The type of HIPAA training your role requires
A plain-language starting point for employees who need to understand where HIPAA compliance begins.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
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The foundations — where HIPAA came from, who it binds, and what it protects. Everything in the rest of the series builds on these definitions.
Congress acted because health information was moving into electronic systems without consistent protection. The course covers the history and the pressures that shaped the legislation.
It turns on your relationship to protected health information and to a covered entity. Part one gives you a practical way to answer that for your own position.
Part one stands on its own as an introduction, but the series is designed to be taken in order — later parts assume the definitions established here.
It is a short module, built to be completed in one sitting alongside the other parts rather than as a full training session.
