HR Compliance
HIPAA: Your Obligations Under the Privacy Rule
Course description
Medical records can include some of the most intimate details about a person’s life. HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was enacted to help employees secure health care while keeping their protected health information, or PHI, private.
Today, we’ll summarize the key elements of HIPAA’s Privacy Rule and explain how you are to protect your beneficiaries’ PHI.
Course Duration: 33 min
Learning objectives:
At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:- The purpose of HIPAA’s Privacy Rule
- The basic requirements of the Rule
- Covered entities and business associates
- What, when, and how your PHI is protected