HIPAA Associates

09/12/2024

A HIPAA Compliance Training program is important for all members of the workforce who work with Protected Health Information. It is essential for every healthcare provider, covered entity and business associate to fully understand the and .

https://www.hipaa-associates.org/hipaa-privacy-and-security-training/compliance/

07/03/2024

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is focused on the use of and how it is affected by the . Many healthcare providers such as regulated entities (covered entities and business associates) use tracking tools to obtain data from their customers. If the data is protected health information it is covered by the regulations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The OCR has offered guidance on the subject which must be followed. For more information on this important topic follow this link. https://www.hipaa-associates.org/hipaa-online-tracking/

05/10/2023

HIPAA Associates is proud to offer the HIPAA Compliance Updates for 2023.
Remember that the Office for Civil Rights expects all covered entities and business associates to review their plan and the HIPAA Rule for changes.
An update of these changes should be offered to staff as part of their training.

A HIPAA Compliance Training program is important for all members of the workforce who work with Protected Health Information. It is essential for every healthcare provider, covered entity and business associate to fully understand the HIPAA Privacy Rule and HIPAA Compliance. Our HIPAA and Privacy Ac...

12/23/2022

The Office for Civil Rights is focusing their energy on and the . It is important for covered entities and business associates to understand the basic concepts of this rule.

We introduce how access is important when handling personal health information (PHI) in the face of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. These are key features every cov...

12/16/2022

The question we are always asked is: “Why is HIPAA Group Training important today in health care?”

Covered Entities are required to comply with the Privacy Rule training requirement. Both Covered Entities and Business Associates are required to comply with the Security Rule training requirement, which applies to all members of the workforce regardless of whether they have access to PHI or not.

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The question we are always asked is: “Why is HIPAA Group Training important today in health care?” The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been in effect since […]

11/01/2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes The HIPAA Privacy Rule (the “Rule”) affects both covered entities and business associates. There are many aspects of the Rule and there continues to be [...]

09/09/2022

How are you handling while working from home? Learn more about it in your recently published article in USA Daily Times.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Since the advent of COVID a large section of the workforce has been forced to work from home. In most situations this has worked well except for the fact that […]

03/13/2022

To fully understand “What HIPAA Stands For” it is important to know some of the history behind the rule. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Privacy Rule to implement the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 also known as HIPAA. Learn more on What is HIPAA?

To fully understand "What HIPAA Stands For" it is important to know some of the history behind the rule. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Privacy Rule to implement the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 also known as HIPAA. HIPAA was created....