HIPPA Annual Training

1. PATIENT PRIVACY ANNUAL TRAINING

2. ISSUES WITH PRIVACY
Patient
Justice
Patient
Confidentiality
Patient
Maleficence
Patient
Fidelity
Patient
Beneficence
Patient
Autonomy

3. The Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPPA)
• Established in 1996
• Requires internal and external safeguards for
patients and providers
• Established laws to protect patients private
health information
• Held healthcare providers accountable for
misuse of patient information
• Covers all patient care entities

4. HIPPA Entities
• Title I
– Health Care Access,
Portability and
Renewability
• Title II
– Preventing Health Care
Fraud and Abuse
Administrative
Simplification, medical
Liability Reform
• Title III
– Tax- Related Health
Provisions
• Title IV
– Application and
Enforcement of Group
Health Plan Requirements
• Title V
– Revenue Offsets

6. HIPPA Benefits
• HIPPA was an innovative approach to healthcare
that greatly benefited patients.
• HIPPA required providers to protect their patients
information and held them accountable if
inappropriate information was released without
approval.
• The implementation of the Affordable Care Act
helped to further advance HIPPA.
• HIPPA enabled healthcare consistency, healthcare
availability, healthcare privacy and patient
information laws.

7. HIPPA Moving Forward
• The changes implemented by HIPPA changed
the standards of healthcare and minimum
requirements for information protection.
• Health Information Technology has further
expanded on HIPPA baseline requirements by
innovating organizational systems and
improving provider access to patient
information.

8. Reference
• Kongstvedt, P. R. (2012). Essentials of
managed health care (6th ed.).Sudbury, MA:
Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
• LSSC eLearning. (14 June, 2012). Legal and
Ethical Issues in nursing.[Video file]. Retrieved
from https://youtu.be/zjzfPARpI4Q