Training on Confidentiality

1. CONFIDENTIALITY TRAINING
Billi Jo Galow
MHA690: Health Care Capstone
Instructor Lu
August 7th, 2014

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
 Privacy and Confidentiality
 HIPPA
 What happens when there is a breach
 Training the Staff

3. PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
 Privacy and confidentiality should be kept as a
number one priority.
 For an organization to provide quality care to the
patients this starts with protecting their information
at all costs
 The best way to ensure that the privacy and
confidentiality is being taken at high priority is to
utilized regular training methods

4. HIPPA
 HIPPA- stands for the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act
 This is meant to help individuals to have and keep
insurance.
 It also requires that the individuals health
information will be kept confidential and protected.
 Ensures security of information

5. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE IS A BREACH
 When a breach happens the patients must be
notified no later than 60 days.
 This is required by law that the patient is notified-
either by certified mail or email

6. TRAINING OF STAFF
 All staff need to know that all patient information is
to be kept private.
 This means that the staff has to have the
understanding that the patients file is not to be
looked at no matter what the reason is.
 The staff should have to take a class on HIPPA to
ensure that they are compliant with the rules
 They need to understand that a breach needs to be
reported to management immediately
 If a breach occurs and was not reported properly
then there needs to be a punishment

7. FOLLOW UP TRAINING
 The management needs to make sure that they are
following up on training
 When there is new information or changes the staff
needs to be informed to maintain the confidentiality
and security of the patients information.
 There needs to be respect of privacy for all patients
no matter who they are

8. REFERENCES
 Associated Press, (2008, August, 7), Report-Over
120 UCLA Hospital Staff Saw Celebrity Health
Records, Retrieved: August 7, 2014, from
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/08/06/report-
over-ucla-hospital-staff-saw-celebrity-health-
records/
 Wolper, L.F., (2011), Health Care Administration,
Planning, Implementing, and Delivery Systems,
Boston: Jones and Barlett.