Confidentiality Training-101

1. The Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Presented by: Ron Raines

2. Introduction
The privacy requirements under the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIPAA of 1996 require a covered entity to:

3. Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and
availability of electronic Protected Health
Information PHI

4. Protect against unreasonably anticipated threats
or hazards to the security and integrity of
electronic PHI

5. Protect against any reasonably anticipated uses
or disclosure of electronic PHI not permitted by
the HIPAA privacy rules, and; ensure compliance
with the preceding by its
workforce (Kongstvedt, P. R., 2007)

6. Kongstvedt, P. R. (2007). Essentials of managed
health care: 5th edition
Jones and `Bartlett, Massachusetts