Create organizational awareness of HIPAA and capitalize on HIPAA
"best practices"...
Training – The
First and Last Word in Privacy Compliance By D'Arcy Guerin
Gue, Executive Vice President, Phoenix Health Systems
For your patients:
Fact
Sheet on HIPAA Medical Privacy Basics 
from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
HIPA-A-B-C's for Small Providers
by the HIPAAsolutions Staff, Phoenix Health Systems
Medical Practice "Before
and After": A HIPAA Reality Play in Two Acts by Helen
Hadley, President, VantagePoint HealthCare Advisors
Training and education ideas
for your HIPAAwareness campaign.
Here's a collection of catchy
phrases & slogans for use in your organizational awareness
education!
Medical
Privacy Stories (PDF)
OCR's
"What's Your Privacy IQ?" online HIPAA quiz
HHS' Office of Civil Rights (OCR), responsible for enforcing the
HIPAA privacy rule, offers a Web-based quiz on 15 top concerns of
the rule. The true-false quiz, presented via PowerPoint slides,
is designed to dispel myths about the rule, while highlighting legitimate
concerns. Issues covered include:
- caregiver verbal conversations
- creation of a government database of patient information
- filling and picking up prescriptions
- dealing with business associates
- disclosing patient information
- purchasing technology for compliance purposes
- using sign-in sheets and calling out names of patients in waiting
rooms
HIPAA
Training Requirements
Security Awareness
Training and Education guidelines document from WEDI SNIP
Educating
the Organization
It’s not just about software. A healthcare organization’s
best strategy for HIPAA compliance lies with a well planned and
comprehensively developed education program.
Executive awareness summary presentations cover the
basics, and work towards senior management buy-in:
Our sample Executive
Awareness HIPAA presentation
(View the Compliance Calendar
for an updated HHS timetable.)
Follow up with a more in-depth educational
session for all managers, department heads and professional staff.
At a minimum, this should include a discussion of HIPAA's implications
department-by-department, and a high-level action plan
Our sample Half-Day Department
Head/ Management HIPAA Presentation
More HIPAA training presentations:
Keep up-to-date on Privacy
Legislation in Congress ,
with a table that summarizes key issues.
Articles
The
HIPAA Training Challenge: Customized E-Learning Helps Staff Pass
the Test
by Jody Strike, Healthcare Informatics, November 2004
With oversight from the Mayo Foundation HIPAA Coordinating Group,
staff at Mayo's three principal sites developed a custom e-learning
strategy.
The
Psychology of Change Management
by Emily Lawson and Colin Price,
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2003 Number 2
Companies can transform the attitudes and behavior of their employees
by applying psychological breakthroughs that explain why people
think and act as they do.
Pillars
of Your Community
by Meg Mitchell Moore, CSO Magazine, January 2003
The biggest challenge facing the security industry is knowing how
to transform an organization's users from its biggest vulnerability
into the first line of defense. The bad news is that it's not going
to be easy. The good news is that it's not going to be impossible.
Here are three steps to get started.
Not
Just for HIPAA: Best Practices for Security and Privacy Make Good
Business Sense
by John J. Halamka, HealthLeaders, December 4, 2002
Though many providers find HIPAA Byzantine and its implementation
is sometimes painful and frustrating, they can obtain many business
benefits from working to develop an administrative simplification
system that makes sense.
Is
HIPAA Really Happening?
by Bill Bysinger, HealthLeaders, July 15, 2002
Here is a set of proposals that could break the mental logjam of
slow HIPAA adoption.
Handling
of Health Data is a Difficult Issue
by Lois M. Collins, Deseret News, July 10, 2002
As the health industry grapples with HIPAA, it's finding the federal
mandate is 10 percent technology and 90 percent about business practices.
The Step Child of HIPAA Compliance:
Culture Change by D'Arcy Guerin Gue, Exec. Vice President,
Phoenix Health Systems
A "HIPAAtized" culture: "where compliant attitudes,
behaviors and sensitivity to patient privacy and confidentiality
become second nature and assumed throughout the workforce."
"HIPAA's
Myths, Practical Realities and Opportunities" (PDF)
white paper from PriceWaterhouseCoopers dispels some of the popular
myths circulating about HIPAA.
Organizational Change
Organizational change surrounding the security of identifiable health
information will be imperative.
Organizational
Change Management
white paper and presentation from WEDI focuses on how communication
and education are the building blocks to integrating security throughout
an organization’s business processes and roles.
Health
Care EDI Transactions: A Business Primer
This report provides a general overview of how electronic data interchange
standards can be used by health care organizations. The report gives
a brief introduction about the development of ASC X12 standards
for electronic data interchange (EDI), describes the purpose of
ASC X12 transaction sets, and provides examples of how these transactions
can be used by health care providers, payer and plan sponsors.
Three
Steps to Increasing Employee Information Security Awareness
by Karen
Czirr, MS, RHIA, Journal of AHIMA
In 1999, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia began to build
a comprehensive employee awareness program on confidentiality and
security of patient and hospital information. The three phases of
the program are outlined and described.
Capitalizing on HIPAA Compliance
by Ellen G. Lanser, with Joe Pokorney,
Phoenix Health Systems
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