A brief overview of patient confidentiality that discusses HIPAA and those who violate HIPAA

1. Patient Confidentiality
Training
NADIA ROWELL
MHA 690
INSTRUCTOR - DR. DAVID S. COLE
JULY 24, 2013

2. Agenda
 What is HIPAA
 What is Protected by HIPAA
 HIPAA Penalties
 Who is Required to Train?
 How Often is Training Required?
 Type of Training

3. Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA)
 The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal
protections for individually identifiable health
information held by covered entities and their
business associates and gives patients an array of
rights with respect to that information

4. What is Protected by HIPPA
 Protected Health Information. The Privacy Rule protects
all "individually identifiable health information" held or
transmitted by a covered entity or its business
associate, in any form or media, whether electronic,
paper, or oral. The Privacy Rule calls this information
"protected health information (PHI)."
 Individually identifiable health information includes
many common identifiers (e.g., name, address, birth
date, Social Security Number

5. HIPAA Penalties
 Penalties will vary significantly depending on factors
such as the date of the violation, whether the covered
entity knew or should have known of the failure to
comply, or whether the covered entity’s failure to
comply was due to willful neglect.
 A person who knowingly obtains or discloses
individually identifiable health information in violation
of the Privacy Rule may face a criminal penalty of up to
$50,000 and up to one-year imprisonment

6. Who is Required to Train?
All employees who have
access to patient
information.

7. When is Training required?
 Employee Orientation
 Training is required Annually

8. What Type of Training will be
utilized?
 In-person training
 Key areas
 Ways employers utilizes protected health information
 how the employer takes precautions to ensure the
confidentiality of the patient information
 Privacy policies and procedures

9. REFERENCES
 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . Retrieved
July 24, 2011 from
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/summa
ry/index.html