HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations (Online Course)
Debbie Sabatino, Director for Privacy, MDS Laboratory Services, Inc. and
Paul Fekete, MD, Medical Director, MediaLab Inc.
This course, using examples specific to the clinical laboratory, covers the HIPAA privacy regulations and treatment of protected health information (PHI) in a succinct manner. Content is directed at laboratory staff, from desk personnel to phlebotomists to medical technologists. Includes numerous interactive case studies. Appropriate for annual HIPAA training for laboratory staff. Key areas covered include technical and physical safeguards, minimum necessary standard, administrative requirements, and authorization.
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Objectives
- Understand the impact of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations in your workplace.
- Be able to apply HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulation requirements to your daily clinical responsibilities.
- Develop a basic understanding of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations.
Course Outline
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- Overview of HIPAA
- HIPAA Privacy Regulation
- What is the HIPAA Privacy Regulation:
- What Information is Protected?
- The HIPAA Privacy Regulation:
- Administrative Requirements include the following:
- Safeguards
- Physical Safeguards
- Administrative Safeguards
- Technical Safeguards
- Case Study: Incidental disclosures and safeguards.
As a manager, you guided a group of high school students through your clinical laboratory dur...
- HIPAA Provides for the Following Rights:
- Case Study: Accessing PHI: You are answering the office phone today. A person claiming to be a patient, whose voice you do not recognize, calls dem...
- Notification
- Authorization
- Case Study: Authorization
You are working in a physicians office. The doctor orders laboratory and other diagnostic tests on a patient with susp...
- Limiting Use and Disclosure of PHI
- Case Study: Limiting Use & Disclosure of PHI
You are the customer service representative in a clinical laboratory. You get a call from someone at a...
- Case Study: Limiting Use & Disclosure of PHI
A nurse from the Winterhaven Outpatient Facility calls requesting an HIV test result on a patient, co...
- Minimum Necessary Use and Disclosure
- Case Study: Minimum Necessary Use and Disclosure
You are a ward clerk responsible for inserting laboratory reports into patients' medical records (c...
- Case Study: Minimum Necessary Use & Disclosure
You are a phlebotomist at a specimen collection center. A patient arrives with an order for a bloo...
- Business Associate Agreement
- Case Study: Business Associate
Your hospital hired a consulting firm to help review and update its HIPAA privacy program. The firm has submitted a...
- De-Identified Health Information
- Case Study: De-identified Health Information.
You work in a laboratory microbiology department which provides a local nursing home with informatio...
- Fax Machines
- HIPAA Security Regulation
- What is the HIPAA Security Regulation?
- What is Electronic PHI (ePHI)?
- Security Officer
- Safeguards
- Administrative Safeguards
- Case Study: Administrative Safeguards
You are the technologist in charge of the hematology section in a hospital laboratory and you are reviewing ...
- Physical Safeguards: Access Controls
- Physical Safeguards: Storage and Disposal of Media
- Case Study: Physical Safeguards
You are a supervisor of a health clinic. During orientation of a new employee, you instruct him to keep the door le...
- Technical Safeguards: System Access Control
- Technical Safeguards: Passwords
- Protection Against Viruses and Malicious Software.
- email Security
- Case Study: Technical Safeguards You are given several sets of logins and passwords to access various information systems. The login is your own first...
- Conclusion
- Follow your own Facilities' Policies and Procedures.
Additional Information
Intended Audience: All healthcare personnel
Level of Instruction: Basic
Author Credentials: Debbie Sabatino has over 20 years of progressive technical, operational, business development and risk management experience in the healthcare field. She currently holds the position of Director, Privacy for MDS Laboratory Services, which includes both Canadian and US Operations. As privacy expert for the organization, Ms. Sabatino is responsible for the development, implementation and ongoing success of the Laboratory Services privacy program as well as the company’s global privacy approach. Debbie is a member of the International Association of Privacy Officers (IAPO), and the Conference Board of Canada Chief Privacy Officers Council. Dr. Fekete is Medical Director for MediaLab. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Pathology at Emory University, and was Director of Laboratories for Gwinnett Health System, near Atlanta. Dr. Fekete has extensive experience teaching, and is the author of numerous journal articles, and several book chapters. He additionally has extensive experience in instructional design.
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