What Have we Learned about HIPAA?
This chapter will assess your employees’ understanding of HIPAA law and how to remain in compliance. Interactive knowledge checks allow your employees to test their grasp of the course they’ve just taken.
What is HIPAA?
In 1996, Congress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA. The law was devised to create national standards for safeguarding people's PHI from being disclosed without their knowledge or consent. In April 2003, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new regulations referred to as the Privacy Rule and Security Rule. These regulations required healthcare organizations to adopt processes and procedures to ensure the highest degree of patient confidentiality.
These are a few questions that HIPAA Training users can expect to find on their course review:
An individual has a medical issue that requires them to visit multiple covered entities. What right gives the individual the ability to find out about times an organization has divulged their PHI to others? The correct answer is the Right to Accounting for Disclosures.
An individual gets in an accident and a covered entity needs access to certain PHI to help provide medical care. Which stipulation under HIPAA defines which PHI can and should be accessed? The correct answer is the Minimum Necessary Rule.
What is true of organizations that enter into a Business Associate Agreement with a covered entity? The correct answer is that they are directly liable for compliance with HIPAA's Privacy and Security requirements, and they must ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect access, use, or disclosure of PHI.
Examples of PHI
The following items are correct examples of personal health information (PHI). The HIPAA Course Review includes questions reviewing these details.
Here are some myths to look out for:
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Organizations can be fined more than 1 million dollars for each violation of a HIPAA provision.
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Social security number
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Medical record number
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Health plan beneficiary numbers
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Account numbers
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Certificate or license number
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Device identifiers and serial numbers
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Internet Protocol (IP) Address Numbers
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Physical Address
The Benefits of Knowledge Checks in HIPAA Training
Because of our top-notch training program, 90% of employees refer EasyLlama to others. EasyLlama is the best platform for workplace training since it offers self-paced courses with hands-on knowledge assessments and Hollywood-produced videos to keep learners interested and remember crucial information. This chapter is designed to keep employees engaged with interactive quizzes and games to help your employees retain the most important knowledge from EasyLlama’s HIPAA course.
Helping over 8,000 organizations create a safer, more productive workplace
EasyLlama’s online training course helps prepare employees to navigate HIPAA. This course provides an in-depth examination of how to respond to a breach of confidential data and the best way to protect your patients. The course covers:
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