When a study released this fall found that more than 50% of staff fail Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) assessments, two-thirds witness internal breaches, and more than 80% ...

In a busy medical office, privacy risks can happen in a flash. A patient form left on the front desk. A billing email sent to the wrong address. A casual ...

Traliant said this month it has created HIPAA training for healthcare organizations and their business associates via an online course. The training is available in two versions: HIPAA for Covered ...

Medical information – which includes fitness, genetic issues, and the diseases someone suffers from – is intensely personal stuff. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ...

HIPAA Training Nurse Federal requirements mandate only that the entire workforce in a practice be trained as 'necessary and appropriate to their functions.' By this time, most people working in ...

Better hospital handoffs decrease medical errors Physician organizations need to do a better job training staff in safeguarding protected health information and complying with HIPAA in other ways.

The use of PHI in training may fall into the category of healthcare operations as long as such use complies with the Privacy Rule. Q: Are we allowed to use case ...

HIPAA Exams designed this 90-minute online HIPAA training course to educate health care Workers on the complete HIPAA law, including HIPAA Privacy, HIPAA Security ...

Basic HIPAA training and adhering to their hospital’s own privacy compliance guidelines may not be enough to ensure nurses are consistently compliant, suggests a Dec. 27 HIPAA Journal report. Ongoing ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut implemented an e-learning solution to deliver HIPAA general privacy training to as many as 6,000 employees. Enacted in 1996, HIPAA -- the Health Insurance Portability ...