HIPAA Compliance : A Professional & Certified Masterclass

Introduces HIPAA and explains its goal to protect patient privacy and secure health care data. Defines PHI and covered entities, and outlines the privacy, security, and breach notification rule.

Explore HIPAA national data protection standards, including privacy, security, breach notification, enforcement, transactions and code sets, unique identifiers, and the omnibus rule expanding liability to business associates.

Identify covered entities and business associates under HIPAA, and understand their roles in patient care, insurance, and health care operations to protect PHI under privacy and security rules.

Explore the business associate agreement as a legally required contract between a covered entity and a business associate that governs hipaa compliance, phi handling, breach notification, and data disposal.

Examine enforcement and historical bar violations under HIPAA, noting OCR penalties for failing to implement a bar before sharing ephi with vendors or cloud providers, and its impact on contracts.

Learn how protected health information falls under the HIPAA privacy rule and what constitutes PHI. Explore the 18 identifiers and de-identification methods to protect patient data and reduce re-identification risk.

Understand electronic protected health information (ePHI) and the HIPAA security rule, including administrative, physical, and technical safeguards, encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, and common cyber threats.

Learn to build an incident response plan for HIPAA breaches, including breach notification, HHS reporting for 500 or more individuals, and secure disposal techniques like digital shredding and degaussing.

Learn the HIPAA privacy rule that protects health information for covered entities and business associates, defining permitted disclosures for treatment, payment, and operations, with minimal necessity and data use agreements.

Access your protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA rights by submitting a records request to covered entities, verifying identity, and receiving timely delivery within 30 days in your preferred format.

Examine patient rights under the privacy rule, including access to health information, amendment, accounting of disclosures, records of disclosures over six years, restriction requests, and confidential communications.

Develop written PHI policies on access, use, and disclosure and appoint a privacy officer to oversee compliance, with workforce training and breach notification duties enforced by OCR.

Learn how to request amendments to PHI and access disclosures, with written requests, 60-day response timelines, denials and statements of disagreement, and accounting for disclosures.

Learn how to request PHI use restrictions in writing, how entities review and inform patients of decisions, and how self-paid services trigger mandatory compliance and potential revocation of restrictions.

Verify identity before PHI access using government-issued identification or unique patient identifiers and security-based authentication. Enforce multi-factor authentication for online requests and require documented authorization for designated representatives.

File a HIPAA privacy breach complaint with the Office for Civil Rights. Submit in writing via OCR channels within 180 days of awareness; no harm proof required.

Explore the HIPAA privacy rule's permitted and prohibited PHI disclosures, including treatment, payment, and health care operations, public health, law enforcement, and patient authorization requirements.

Establish strict verification and security measures for handling PHI requests, enforce role-based access, maintain audit logs, ensure secure transmissions, and implement breach prevention with incident response protocols.

Explore hipaa's security rule protecting electronic protected health information with administrative, physical, and technical safeguards, including risk analysis, minimum necessary access, training, and encryption.

Define organizational requirements for HIPAA compliance, including business associate agreements, policies, risk assessments, penalties, corrective actions, and administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protecting ePHI.

Enforce policy-driven security with risk assessments using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, train staff on phishing and social engineering, and implement incident response playbooks along with third-party and business associate agreements.

Implement physical safeguards and access controls to prevent unauthorized ePHI access across on-site and remote environments, covering smart access, workstation security, privacy filters, asset tracking, and secure disposal.

Explore digital protection mechanisms that encrypt data in transit and at rest with AES-256; use SSL/TLS, MFA, intrusion detection systems, real-time audit logging, and SIEM to support risk assessment.

Explore how HIPAA governs electronic health records to protect patient privacy and data integrity. Learn about access controls, break glass, temporary permissions, and secure data exchange for interoperable EHR systems.

Explore how HIPAA establishes national standards to protect PHI, enable secure health data exchange, and empower patient rights under the privacy rule.