HIPAA Compliance Training for Healthcare Staff

HIPAA compliance training applies to virtually every organization in the healthcare industry which is creating, maintaining, sharing, and storing patient health information is affected by new HIPAA privacy, security, and breach notification rules released on January 17, 2013.  This training requirements applies to all healthcare organisations and their business associates and it is stated in Administrative Requirement of the HIPAA Privacy Rule (45 CFR §164.530) and an Administrative Safeguard of the HIPAA Security Rule (45 CFR §164.308). HIPAA compliance training is key to successfully complying with the HIPAA requirement and to avoid breach and penalty. Employee training logs are part of HIPAA compliance audits. HIPAA further requires to train the employees as deemed necessary to maintain the integrity and security of the PHI data handled by the employees, along with the HIPAA privacy training.. Any new member addition to the team or functional role change for any existing member requires timely HIPAA  training. Though the rule doesn’t specify the frequency of training, it is recommended annually.  This web-based awareness training prepares healthcare organizations and business associates staff to comply with this mandatory requirement by Health and Human Services(HHS)..and helps maintain their employees training log current.