Alberta Privacy Compliance Training Course Outline:
Participants earn a certificate in Alberta Healthcare Privacy Compliance and 3 hours toward continuing competency.
Designed specifically for healthcare professionals in Alberta, this engaging and interactive 3-hour online course is the essential guide to understanding and applying Alberta’s Health Information Act (HIA) in healthcare practice.
Participants will learn the rules, concepts, and tools that empower ongoing privacy compliance and the knowledge to confidently operate in a way that helps prevent privacy breaches in healthcare settings.
Beyond legal compliance, this course teaches actionable insights to help clinics create a privacy-first culture that builds patient trust and safeguards sensitive data.
Privacy topics covered:
- Essential privacy principles to apply to clinic functions, patient data management, and decision-making.
- The rules governing health data in the Health Information Act (HIA), the and how they apply to individual roles in clinic settings.
- The definition of a privacy breach, and how to recognize and prevent privacy breaches common in healthcare.
- The categories of safeguards required to properly protect patient information including essential actionable examples.
- Patient data lifecycle management – How the HIA regulates the collection, use, disclosure, and disposal of health information.
- How to assess communications for compliance risk and establish safe data-sharing practices with patients and other providers.
- Cyber threats such as ransomware and phishing and how to prevent them.
- Real-world scenarios and solutions for common compliance challenges faced by healthcare providers.
“Brightsquid privacy compliance training has helped our clinic by creating steps and sequences to help maintain privacy and prepare for the future.“
– Clinic Administrator, Calgary
Over 5000 healthcare professionals across the spectrum of care have received Brightsquid’s Alberta privacy compliance training course. 100% of clinic administrators surveyed recommend the course and say it is easy to access and follow while keeping their clinic up to date with privacy requirements.
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