Does the HIPAA Training from The HIPAA Journal help satisfy the regulatory requirements for training?
Yes, the HIPAA training from The HIPAA Journal has been specifically designed to help satisfy the mandatory regulatory requirements to train your workforce on HIPAA, which is a baseline before additional training on specific internal policies and procedures that apply in an organization. Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule and Security Rule, covered entities and business associates must ensure that all relevant workforce members receive training on HIPAA requirements and on how to perform their roles in compliance with those requirements. The HIPAA Journal’s courses are built around those obligations and provide comprehensive coverage of the HIPAA rules and regulations employees need to understand, including the core Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rule concepts, permitted uses and disclosures of PHI, patient rights, safeguards, incident reporting, and common real world risk areas such as email, messaging, and social media.
HIPAA also requires training on each organization’s own internal policies and procedures, which the regulations state will “depend on the size and type of activities” of the covered entity and on the results of its HIPAA risk assessment. Those internal policies are necessarily different in every organization, so they cannot be built into a single generic online course. The HIPAA Journal training deliberately does not attempt to cover those local policies and procedures; instead, organizations typically combine The HIPAA Journal’s rules-and-regulations training with their own site-specific policy and procedure training to fully meet all HIPAA training obligations.
