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Provided by: Serebra Learning Corporation HIPAA Securing Protected Health Information |
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Training
Provided by Serebra Learning Corporation
Congress designed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Administrative Simplification Rules to make it easier for healthcare providers, insurance companies, and information clearinghouses to provide adequate care for patients. By using a single set of standards for exchanging electronic data, healthcare organizations can send and receive health information more quickly and at a lower cost. However, standardizing the electronic "language" of healthcare data creates a threat to a patient's privacy rights. The law includes specific safeguards for patients' health information. The law that establishes these rules does not place any specific requirements on employers. However, many employers sponsor healthcare insurance plans for employees and share protected health information about employees with organizations covered by the new rules. Employers must protect themselves against liability under the new rules by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electroni The courses in this series cover a variety of subject areas that affect all employees, with an emphasis on management and human resource personnel who need to understand and implement compliance policies.
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HIPAA Securing Protected Health Information
Audience
The courses in this series cover a variety of subject areas that affect all employees, with an emphasis on management and human resource personnel who need to understand and implement compliance policies.
Topics
Objectives
- Administrative Safeguards for Data Security
- recognize the value of complying with the Security Standards prescribed by HIPAA Administrative Simplification Rules.
- match organizational safeguards for data security under the Administrative Safeguards section of the HIPAA Security Standards with examples.
- select examples of implementations of workforce standards for data security required under the Administrative Safeguards section of the HIPAA Security Standards.
- identify business associate contract provisions that address security requirements of HIPAA's Administrative Safeguards.Protecting Data
- recognize the benefits of providing physical and technical safeguards for protected health information.
- match standards for providing physical safeguards for protected health information to examples.
- recommend actions to improve implementation of physical safeguard standards for protecting PHI in a hypothetical company.
- match technical safeguard standards required under the H
About The Training Provider: Serebra Learning Corporation
Serebra Learning Corporation - Serebra Learning Corporation provides technology-based training solutions through a combination of Cortex, its proprietary learning management system (LMS), and a curriculum catalog with over 1,825 current courseware titles. Founded in 1987 (as FirstClass Systems, with a name change to Serebra in 2001), Serebra has over sixteen years" experience delivering e-learning solutions to both...
