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This 3-day professional certification course is intended to prepare the student to serve as a HIPAA consultant. Once prepared the graduate should have the knowledge and ability to help medical facilities, providers and administrators comply with the complex new privacy and security requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Students are given the opportunity to analyze these unprecedented new federal restrictions on privacy, electronic transactions and security standards. The student should come away with the ability to describe key terms and be able to outline "minimum necessary" use and disclosure of privacy information. The course covers "business associate" agreements and how "identifiable" information should be used and shared by medical partners. The course also spells out HIPAA implementation strategies: a road map for medical centers to started down the road to compliance, from assembling a HIPAA team, including privacy and security officers, to conducting a HIPAA gap analysis and risk assessment for the organization to implementing the transactions and code sets standards. Checklists, forms and outlines also are provided to help the student facilitate the compliance process. Enforcement actions and compliance deadlines are covered.
While this course does provide sufficient knowledge to serve as a HIPAA consultant, it also serves as a Prerequisite for more advance HIPAA training in either transaction code sets or computer security. Because HIPAA starts with protected health information and ends with e-business, enormous opportunities exist in the areas of enterprise computing that reaches the highest level. TSU intends to offer both HIPAA direct and related computing courses to support individuals that wish to serve at any levels. Major Topics
The course is organized as follows:
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