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A Complete Online Guide to HIPAA Compliance

Everything you need to know about HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Training, identifying gaps and deploying controls within your healthcare clinic.
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As leaders in healthcare data privacy and secure messaging, Brightsquid offers the most comprehensive HIPAA Compliance and Breach Prevention training and consultation.
  • Prevent Common Healthcare Clinic HIPAA Breaches
  • Understand Legal Use and Disclosure of PHI

HIPAA Compliance Solutions by Brightsquid

At Brightsquid, our HIPAA experts can help you prevent breaches and save your clinic millions in penalties for HIPAA non-compliance. From HIPAA Compliance training courses for your employees to risk assessment and consulting, we offer comprehensive solutions for healthcare providers, clinics, and business associates across the United States.

HIPAA Breach Prevention Training

Our role-based HIPAA breach prevention training modules teach your clinic staff to properly manage protected health information (PHI), understand HIPAA rules for compliance, identify gaps in HIPAA compliance, and respond to threats before a breach happens.

Secure Messaging Consulting

Let us help you navigate the nuances of healthcare data delivery and secure messaging for HIPAA compliance with Secure-Mail. Our experts can help set up HIPAA-compliant email solutions with encryption protocols, access controls, multi-factor authentication, and audit trails.

Risk Assessment and Support

Get expert-level compliance risk assessment, privacy management, and security consulting from our HIPAA professionals with over two decades of experience in healthcare privacy management and data delivery. Access the expertise trusted by 70,000 clinics across North America.

HIPAA Compliance Training for Staff

HIPAA Compliance goes beyond certifications and protocols – it’s about building a team where each person understands, recognizes, and knows how to handle PHI. The HIPAA courses you can take through Brightsquid help create an environment of patient trust and can save your clinic millions in HIPAA violation penalties.

Required and recommended elements of HIPAA training:

  • Must provide an overview of HIPAA and related rules
  • Must be tailored to job roles within healthcare organizations or business associates
  • Must ensure that all members of the staff understand their responsibilities in protecting PHI
  • Must explain patient rights and how to share PHI 
  • Must explain data breaches and how to recognize and prevent them
  • Must review security safeguards
  • Must explain the consequences of non-compliance

Who Should Take HIPAA Breach Prevention Training?

HIPAA Compliance training courses are a must for all healthcare employees, including full-time, part-time, interns, and contract employees. Whether they are involved in direct delivery of care services or not, any member of the staff who may come in contact with PHI must complete a HIPAA training course.  Apart from healthcare providers, HIPAA training is mandatory for business associates and vendors who support the covered entities.

How Often Should Clinic Staff Take HIPAA Training?

  • Initial training at onboarding
  • Annual refresher training
  • Update training when policies or regulations change

What is HIPAA?

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA is a US federal law enacted in 1996 that aims to protect the rights and privacy of individuals while enabling safe health data sharing by setting up a framework for managing personal health information. HIPAA regulations apply to two main groups-,

The covered entities, which include hospitals, clinics, physicians, nurses, health insurance providers, pharmacies, dental and chiropractic offices etc.

The business associates, which comprise of all vendors and subcontractors of the covered entities that have access to PHI in support of covered entities, including medical billing companies, cloud storage providers, IT support vendors, legal and accounting firms etc.

HIPAA offers a comprehensive framework for all parties involved in the collection, storage, management, and disposal of PHI and ePHI. 

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