Hipaa Hitech Certification

Our training includes changes to the hipaa regulations due to health information technology for economic and clinical health hitech act that is a part of american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009arra and omnibus rule published in 2013.
Hipaa hitech certification. From hipaa to hitech covered entities are health plans healthcare providers and healthcare clearinghouses. This means that there is no single standardized program that could appropriately train employees of all entities. Many employers in the state of new york require that their workers receive regular training on the health insurance portability and accountability act. It gives the office for civil rights ocr the resources to pursue breaches of hipaa hitech compliance by introducing a four tier penalty structure with much higher financial penalties than before.
It was subsequently revised in 2009 with the arrahitech act and again in 2013 with the omnibus rule. Now any business in breach of hipaa or hitech compliance can be fined up to 15 million even if there has not been an unauthorized disclosure of protected health information phi. Course for hipaa provides access to an online hipaa training class. The hipaa rules are flexible and scalable to accommodate the enormous range in types and sizes of entities that must comply with them.
The health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996 hipaa and by extension the health information technology for economic and clinical health hitech breach notification requirements were enacted to ensure that privacy safeguards are in place for data that is collected stored processed or transmitted. Hipaa stands for the health insurance portability and accountability act and is a us. Provisions for heightened enforcement of hipaa and stiffer penalties for privacy and security violations. The new privacy and security provisions are found in title xiii health information technology which includes the hitech act.
Our individual training is for a single individual looking to obtain their hipaa awareness training certification and optionally their hipaa security training certification to satisfy that training requirement under hipaa and to provide to an employerorganization as proof of training before they can allow you access to their patient information. Ocr can issue fines for non compliance with either act even if there is no breach of phi or unauthorized disclosure.