HIPAA PRIVACY AND SECURITY COMPLIANCE TRAINING – (4 DAYS)

• Understand what HIPAA means, how it affects your organization, and what significant changes in policies, procedures & processes within the organization in the handling of patient records.
• Understand the changes to HIPAA rules due to ARRA 2009 HITECH Act and 2013 Omnibus Rule final changes.
• Understand the federal program for meaningful use and incentives for adopting electronic health records.
• Understand the current and potential uses of social media, mobile technologies and big data in health care with the privacy and security risks and challenges.
• Identify the main reasons behind HIPAA, specifically, to provide continuity/portability of health benefits to individuals between jobs; to combat fraud/abuse in health insurance and healthcare delivery; to reduce administrative costs in health care; to provide uniform standards for electronic healthcare transactions; and, to ensure security and privacy of patient health information.
• Have an in-depth understanding of HIPAA Security, Privacy and Transaction rule.
• Understand who Business Associates are and what will they have to do to ensure HITECH HIPAA compliance.
• Examine how implementing HIPAA will affect the way healthcare entities organize and staff to achieve and monitor compliance with patient privacy/confidentiality needs.
• Understand the new Enforcement rule.
• Review specific requirements and implementation features within each security category.
• Step through how to plan and prepare for HIPAA compliance. HIPAA is about awareness first, assessment second and finally action focused on gaps identified.
• Understand all required and addressable HIPAA Security implementation specifications.
• Review core elements of a security policy document for a health care entity.
• Review specific requirements and implementation features within each security category.
• Identify core elements of a compliance plan that every health care entity is required to develop for business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Analyze international security standards, NIST, ISO’s 27002 and the BS 7799.
• Cross walk between NIST, SOX, ISO and HIPAA requirements.

Global delivery of all training courses. Venues change based on demand, customization and entity requirements https://www.training-hipaa.net/hipaa-credentials/certified-hipaa-privacy-security-expert-chpse/   and https://www.training-hipaa.net/states_main/  for specific locations.