Governing regulations
This online training provides an overview of the general compliance needs for disposal of protected health information (PHI) as suggested in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. Students get to know the practical details on how to make enterprise HIPAA compliance.
Course Overview
In healthcare work environment, it is highly critical to safeguard huge data of sensitive and personal information about patients and visitors. Such sensitive information can be in the form of individual medical records, insurance statements, medical prescriptions, medicine bills, and so on.
With technology innovations, these exhaustive sensitive information can be stored electronically which can be accessed from anywhere. Healthcare centres are vulnerable to data breaches, in which sensitive patients’ information can be compromised and shared to unscrupulous people, who can create financial loss, damage individual’s reputation or affect their career prospects.
The main focus of this course is to address practical needs of safeguarding protected health information (PHI) as warranted by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. The course includes the general practices that people and organizations follow to maintain HIPAA compliance.