HIPAA Privacy and Security: Home Health

Overview

This course explains the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy and security rules as applicable and relevant to Home Health. It also addresses the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule published in the Federal Register January 25, 2013 that finalized the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act’s modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security, breach notification and enforcement final rules. Access the final rule at http://tinyurl.com/auulp25

Features and benefits of this course include:

• Testing, remediation, and case studies provide feedback on whether learners are applying policies and regulations correctly.
• “Test Your Knowledge” exercises check learner understanding at every step.
• Second-year “refresher” series are available for ongoing annual refresher education needs.
• Role-specific case scenarios apply regulations to real-life settings and ask learners how a situation should be handled. At the end of each scenario, users learn the appropriate way to react to the given situation.
• Video-based scenarios show the “wrong way” and “right way” to handle a situation, increasing student engagement.
• Design and audio narration offers different ways to navigate through the course so students are guided through interaction, not simple reading.
• A certificate of completion allows you to prove that employees successfully completed training.

Duration:  58 minutes

HIPAA Privacy and Security: Home Health

Course Objectives

• Describe how HIPAA affects covered entities
• Summarize how to protect patient privacy without compromising critical care
• Explain patient rights for accessing their medical information
• Determine when disclosures of protected health information (PHI) are acceptable
• Protect confidential health information by following proper procedures both in the organization and offsite
• Create effective passwords to protect electronic information
• Identify which information commonly encountered by nurses, therapists, social workers, and home health aides is protected by HIPAA
• Prevent identity theft

HIPAA Privacy and Security: Home Health

Contributor

Robert Markette is an attorney with Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C. His primary areas of practice are health law, Medicare/Medicaid compliance, fraud and abuse, and employment law and litigation. He is certified in healthcare compliance by the Health Care Compliance Board. Markette assists clients including county health departments, home health agencies, private duty agencies, hospices, and physicians with a wide range of healthcare compliance and litigation issues.

HIPAA Privacy and Security: Home Health

Terms

You will have access to HIPAA Privacy and Security for Home Health for 1 year from the purchase/order date.