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Consider these options when educating your staff

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, February 9, 2007

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The HIPAA privacy and security rules require that your organization adopt a variety of policies and procedures and conduct risk assessments to secure the confidentiality of patients' protected health information (PHI). However, training staff and raising organizational awareness are as important as creating policies, because only the members of your work force can ensure that these provisions are effective. Although employees may react well to privacy training and understand its importance, they may be less ready to understand and appreciate security training.

Some training suggestions include

• a periodic "Compliance Corner" e-mail that focuses on difficulties (e.g., missing equipment or password behavior)
• newsletters to bring HIPAA to the forefront of employees' minds and actions
• a station at the organization's patient safety fair

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