HIPAA Course
This HIPAA Compliance Training Video Course is designed to help healthcare professionals, IT personnel, compliance officers, and business associates understand and apply the core requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The course provides a practical overview of HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, focusing on how organizations can safeguard protected health information (PHI) in today’s digital healthcare environment.
Participants will learn about patient privacy rights, administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, access control, authentication, encryption, risk management, incident response, and employee security awareness. The course also explores common HIPAA violations, emerging cybersecurity threats, insider risks, ransomware attacks, and best practices for protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI).
Through real-world examples, practical guidance, and compliance-focused training, learners will gain the knowledge needed to reduce regulatory risk, improve data protection practices, and support HIPAA compliance initiatives across healthcare organizations. This course is ideal for organizations seeking to strengthen privacy and security awareness while maintaining compliance with healthcare regulations and industry standards.
What you will learn
In this course, you will gain a thorough understanding of HIPAA's history, purpose, and the federal rules that govern how protected health information must be handled across the healthcare industry.
You will learn how to identify the 18 categories of individually identifiable health information that trigger HIPAA protections, and you will understand the critical difference between covered entities and business associates and why both are personally accountable under the law.
You will master the Privacy Rule's patient rights framework, the Minimum Necessary standard, and the permitted disclosures that apply to everyday treatment, billing, and operational activities.
You will explore the Security Rule's three safeguard categories: administrative, physical, and technical, and understand how they apply to electronic health data in your organization.
You will learn how to recognize and respond to the top cybersecurity threats facing healthcare, including phishing, ransomware, and insider access abuse.
You will understand the Breach Notification Rule's strict 60-day reporting timelines and what constitutes a proper breach response.
And you will leave with a clear picture of your individual duties from workstation security and credential management to social media boundaries, along with a firm understanding of the civil and criminal penalties that apply when those duties are not met.
Curriculum
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