HIPAA
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) is a broad federal law that addresses many healthcare issues, including insurance benefits, medical savings accounts, and fraud and abuse. The Portability focus of HIPAA is to let people take their health insurance benefits with them when they change jobs or leave the workforce. The Accountability focus of HIPAA is to protect the confidentiality of Protected Health Information (PHI). While the law outlines broad requirements for healthcare organizations, more detailed requirements are found in the federal regulations. These regulations are being developed by the Center For Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and enforced by a combination of the Office of Civil Rights and CMS, all within the Department of Health and Human Services.
HIPAA Solutions Rx
HIPAA Solutions Rx is a specialist in HIPAA compliance, helping organizations to navigate HIPAA regulations and put them into practice. They are the leading provider of HIPAA products and services to all segments of the healthcare industry with over 8,000 customers. More than 75,000 students have completed their courses. For more information, visit www.hipaarx.net .
The e-Learning Program
If you're conducting initial staff training, training new hires or providing annual refresher requirements, HIPAA e-Learning is an ideal resource. The courses are authored by nationally recognized HIPAA expert Mary Brandt and certified by the healthcare law firm of Fleisher & Associates to meet HIPAA requirements for staff training. Features and benefits include:
- Interesting and engaging courses
- Available 24x7 via any standard internet connection
- Online administrative access to progress and test scores to one or more managers
- Ease of administration and economics of e-learning
- Courses address all three aspects of HIPAA - privacy, security and transaction code sets
- Courses teach the "intention" of the regulations vs. the "legal interpretation"
- Customizable with organization-specific information such as policies and procedures
- Delivers all the training outlined by Regulation 164.530 with a minimum investment
- A complete library of courses available to students matching their job title and role (over 60 titles available)
- Students can take notes online and bookmark their place in the course to continue at a later time
- Quizzes and testing ensures student engagement and makes it easy to document employee training
- Updated courseware to keep you abreast of frequent changes expected in the law
- Introductory HIPAA overview course is available in Spanish
The e-Learning program is available to one user on your HR team and is included in your HIPAA Training & Compliance Center access fee. The subscription fee for each additional user you may want to access only the e-Learning program is only $49 USD for WorldatWork members ($79 USD per user for nonmembers). Volume discounts are available for more than 25 users.
View the HIPAA e-Learning Fact Sheet for more detailed information.
The QuickStart Privacy Manual
The QuickStart Privacy Manual was prepared by HIPAA Solutions Rx for employers with a lighter compliance burden to provide the best chance of quickly and easily becoming compliant with the HIPAA Privacy Rule. An easy-to-use checklist and Model Document Library will help you expeditiously navigate your company into HIPAA compliance. The QuickStart Manual will get you started down the path of HIPAA compliance with the most crucial portions of the regulation. Eight easy steps will take you through the compliance process. Understanding what HIPAA is and how if affects you is the first step toward HIPAA compliance. Then you must set out developing policies and procedures, forms and agreements to meet compliance. Do you have the time and resources to go it alone?
The QuickStart Privacy Manual will help you:
- Identify your covered entities
- Learn about Protected Health Information (PHI)
- Set up policies and procedures to deal with PHI
- Create a Privacy Policy
- Train your employees
The QuickStart Privacy Manual and Model Document Library are all posted online inside the HIPAA Training & Compliance Center for easy access. The Model Documents are designed for you to customize and edit as necessary to meet the individual needs of your organization.
The Quick Start Privacy Manual is available to one user on your HR team and is included in your HIPAA Training & Compliance Center access fee. An upgraded Comprehensive HIPAA Privacy Manual featuring more than 300 pages of content is available for an additional $199 USD for WorldatWork members ($279 USD for nonmembers) for a 12-month subscription. For organizations that have a more complex group health plan structure (e.g., significant self-funded plans or broader exposure to confidential health information), this is a "must have" addition to your HIPAA library.
View the HIPAA Quick Start Privacy Manual Fact Sheet for more detailed information.
The QuickStart Security Manual
The HIPAA Security Rule requires you to implement the necessary compliance infrastructure in your organization to comply with the three key safeguards included in the Rule:
- Administrative
- Physical
- Technical
Similar to the QuickStart Privacy Manual, the QuickStart Security Manual includes a simple to follow, step-by-step guide tailored to employers and brokers to establish the infrastructure, including the policies and procedures surrounding the protection of Protected Health Information (PHI) held in electronic form. It was developed by renowned healthcare, HIPAA regulation experts, IT and Network security experts, and is based on best practices defined by security industry leaders such as National Institute of Standards and Technology. It includes 23 policies, procedures, reports and logs which you can quickly modify for your organization. Flexible in design, the templates can be easily customized for each organization. Each chapter has to-do lists that lead you every step of the way. Each policy or procedure presents a coherent description of the related security standard and implemented specification.
The Quick Start Security Manual is available to one user on your HR team and is included in your HIPAA Training & Compliance Center access fee.
View the HIPAA Quick Start Security Manual Fact Sheet for more detailed information. |
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