Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Overview

Imagine you are working with some health data to put together a report for your manager. It’s due the next day, but it is getting late. You decide to put the data you need on a thumb drive and catch your bus home so you can finish the report from there. When you arrive home, you can’t find the thumb drive. You’re annoyed but not too worried about it. The next day, you finish the report and turn it in to your manager. After that, it’s business as usual. A few weeks later, you hear a news story about your company. The company has allegedly breached health data and is being investigated by regulators. You wonder what is going on. Your IT department begins an urgent, high-priority investigation. They quickly track the leak back to you! That thumb drive you lost fell into the wrong hands. Now, you are in danger of losing your job, patients feel like their trust has been violated, and your company is losing some of its best customers due to the negative publicity. If only you could go back in time! You would definitely do things differently, right? The goal of this course is to prevent incidents like this from happening in the first place.

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Learning Objectives

Explain what HIPAA and PHI are.
Recognize why HIPAA is important to patients, employers and employees.
Recall how HIPAA applies to most general industry jobs.

Recognize a PHI security breach.
Recall what to do in case of an information breach.

Course Outline

1. Introduction
1. Welcome
2. Introduction
3. Learning Objectives
2. Definitions
1. What Is HIPAA?
2. What Is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
3. Learning Activity: PHI
3. Why HIPAA Is Important
1. What Does HIPAA Do to Protect PHI?
2. To Whom Does HIPAA Apply?
3. Why Does HIPAA Matter?
4. Knowledge Check: Why HIPAA Matters 1
5. Knowledge Check: Why HIPAA Matters 2

4. HIPAA and General Industry Jobs
1. What Does HIPAA Mean for Me?
2. What Do I Need to Do?
3. Learning Activity: HIPAA Fact or Fiction
4. What Are the Privacy and Security Rules?
5. Security Breaches
1. What Is a Breach?
2. When Is an Incident NOT a Breach?
3. What Are Some Examples of Non-Breaches?
4. Do We Have to Report Incidents that Are Not Breaches?
5. Knowledge Check: Breaches 1
6. Knowledge Check: Breaches 2
7. Knowledge Check: Breaches 3
8. What If I Discover a Breach?
9. What Happens After I Notify My Supervisor?
10. Who Do We Notify About a Breach?
11. Knowledge Check: What to Do
6. Conclusion
1. Summary