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What is the HIPPA/ Privacy Compliance Law?

• HIPPA: stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Passed by Congress in 1996;
implemented April 14, 2003
• Ensures that personal medical information that patients share with healthcare providers remains private and is protected.

Objectives:

• Understand principles of the HIPAA Privacy Rule
• Understand your role in protecting patient information

To Whom Does HIPAA Apply?

• Covered Entity: under HIPAA, this means health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, healthcare    providers who transmit any health information

• Healthcare providers include all workforce members of hospitals and clinics including healthcare students

The Privacy Law

• Protects all health information created by a healthcare provider, health plan or healthcare clearinghouse

• Protects this information no matter how it is transmitted (verbally, electronically or in writing)

• Defines who is allowed to use patients’ protected health information