Online Class: Compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Cost: $50.00
Time: 18 minutes
Instructor: John Muir

HIPAA Contains significant new restrictions on the commercial use of private medical information and provides substantial penalties for violations.

In this 18 minute course you will learn the impact of this of Federal legislation on healthcare organizations with respect to maintaining the privacy of private medical information. Then you can determine whether the business activities of your organization and the type of information you deal with qualifies you as a covered organization pursuant to the definitions set forth in HIPAA

You will also learn the essential requirements of a “reasonable” security program and what reasonable means within the context of the law. In addition, you will learn about the types of security measures that you will need to consider as part of your security program.