HIPAA Overview
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was passed into a law to create a national standard for protecting the privacy of patients' personal health information.
The law is intended to protect health information by establishing transaction standards for the exchange of health information, security standards, and privacy standards for the use and disclosure of individually identifiable health information.
HIPAA applies to health care providers and employer group health plans.
The following areas in specific are addressed: 1.
Concerns regarding the disclosure of patient medical records, insurance declination, loss of employment, or failure to be hired in a new job; 2.
Increasing costs of data exchange in an incompatible and often competing standards environment to exchange administrative and financial data; 3.
Implement processes and systems to reduce fraud HIPAA basically deals with three standards.
One standard on administrative issues addresses the efficiency and effectiveness of interchanging electronic data for administrative and financial transactions such as insurance claims and payments, insurance eligibility and enrollment, and premium payments.
This component also sets standards for what codes can be used to indicate the performed procedures (e.
g.
CPT and ICD-9 for clinical procedures and diagnosis among others), who performed the procedure (unique provider ID), and to whom the procedure was performed (unique patient ID.
) The other two standards are Security and Privacy.
HIPAA requires security of individual's information and mandates privacy, security, confidentiality, and controlled and auditable access to the information.
This has a foremost impact on how we currently store and allow access to patient data.
HIPAA overview training offered by us prepares you for the HIPAA certification exam of Certified HIPAA Privacy Associate (CHPA), a perfect course for new hires, students and the general workforce.
This course is updated with the latest HIPAA changes under ARRA's HITECH act in 2009.
This course covers everything healthcare workers need to know about basic HIPAA Privacy and Security.
This HIPAA course is entirely online and is intended for employees, medical students and volunteers who need a general awareness of HIPAA.
This course will meet the job role based training requirements Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
The law is intended to protect health information by establishing transaction standards for the exchange of health information, security standards, and privacy standards for the use and disclosure of individually identifiable health information.
HIPAA applies to health care providers and employer group health plans.
The following areas in specific are addressed: 1.
Concerns regarding the disclosure of patient medical records, insurance declination, loss of employment, or failure to be hired in a new job; 2.
Increasing costs of data exchange in an incompatible and often competing standards environment to exchange administrative and financial data; 3.
Implement processes and systems to reduce fraud HIPAA basically deals with three standards.
One standard on administrative issues addresses the efficiency and effectiveness of interchanging electronic data for administrative and financial transactions such as insurance claims and payments, insurance eligibility and enrollment, and premium payments.
This component also sets standards for what codes can be used to indicate the performed procedures (e.
g.
CPT and ICD-9 for clinical procedures and diagnosis among others), who performed the procedure (unique provider ID), and to whom the procedure was performed (unique patient ID.
) The other two standards are Security and Privacy.
HIPAA requires security of individual's information and mandates privacy, security, confidentiality, and controlled and auditable access to the information.
This has a foremost impact on how we currently store and allow access to patient data.
HIPAA overview training offered by us prepares you for the HIPAA certification exam of Certified HIPAA Privacy Associate (CHPA), a perfect course for new hires, students and the general workforce.
This course is updated with the latest HIPAA changes under ARRA's HITECH act in 2009.
This course covers everything healthcare workers need to know about basic HIPAA Privacy and Security.
This HIPAA course is entirely online and is intended for employees, medical students and volunteers who need a general awareness of HIPAA.
This course will meet the job role based training requirements Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
