Tip: Use these agenda items for office training
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, January 26, 2009
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Editor’s note: Last week, we discussed pitfalls that could lead to HIPAA privacy and security violations at a physician’s office. This week, Rebecca Herold, CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, a privacy, security, and compliance consultant with Rebecca Herold & Associates LLC in Van Meter, IA, outlines topics for office training.
Train physician office staff members on the following topics:
- The importance of policies
- Executive support of policies
- Policy responsibilities
- Policy ownership
- Sanctions for policy noncompliance
- Updates to policies
- Exceptions to policies
- Whom to contact for questions
- Reference information
- What PHI is
- Defining PHI and the related regulations and laws
- Describing other types of personal information
- Reviewing controls necessary for personal information
- Roles and responsibilities for protecting/safeguarding PHI
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