HIPAA Compliance Complete Course

Explains the hipaa security rule and safeguards for protecting phi's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Highlights risk analysis, security measures, a security official, access management, and workforce training.

Implement policies to restrict access to electronic protected health information. Establish audit controls, integrity measures, and transmission security, distinguishing addressable from required safeguards in HIPAA security rule part two.

Explain how the HIPAA privacy rule protects patients' protected health information, outlines rights to access, copy, and amend records, and requires privacy notices from covered entities.

Understand how the HITECH Act, as part of ARRA, strengthens HIPAA compliance by accelerating health IT adoption, expanding enforcement, and imposing mandatory penalties for willful neglect up to $1.5 million. Explore how covered entities and business associates must follow HIPAA security rules, ensure providers with an EHR system give patients access to their PHI in electronic format, and notify HHS of unsecured PHI breaches affecting 500 or more people.

Understand malware, including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, and learn to prevent infections by updating antivirus software, patching systems, using strong passwords, avoiding suspicious links, and backing up data.

Learn how encryption protects PHI under HIPAA, why strong passwords matter, and how HIPAA's 'required' and 'addressable' language guides encryption decisions, including secure messaging platforms and hard drive encryption.

Learn to handle a hipaa breach of phi, notify affected individuals, report to hhs, and manage media notices for larger breaches, with guidance for covered entities and business associates.