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The Importance of Proper Employee Training, Testing and
Documentation
With Respect To Compliance, Due Diligence, Liability and
Lawsuits
Is The Most Overlooked Risk Facing Health Care
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 If you read nothing else on this web site, read this
carefully: Although HIPAA does not specifically create any right for
any individual to sue in Federal court over breaches of privacy, because the
HIPAA regulations create a new "duty of care" with respect to the protection of
the confidentiality of patient health information, HIPAA violations can be
grounds for state tort actions. Lawsuits can be brought against you or your
health care organization in your state courts if privacy or confidentialty
violations occur causing damage to patients - particularly where inadequate and
improper employee training has occured. Due diligence in implementing and
maintaining all HIPAA training and documentation requirements is essential for
health care practices to substantiate compliance efforts and to avoid the
appearance of carelessness in the event of civil litigation. A strong due
diligence program involving workforce training, testing and documentation is
your best bet for reducing your exposure to liabilities associated with
breaches of confidentiality caused from improper handling of protected health
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HIPAA Training
Tests
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Document Your Training
Activity
(Included
With Your Subscription) |
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Privacy
& Security Officers
Level 1 HIPAA Test |
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Employees of Group Subscribers
With Private Custom
Testing Areas
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| About Our Training
Tests |
 We have two different
levels of HIPAA training tests. Our Level One Test is designed for
testing the knowledge level of Privacy Officers, Security Officers,
administrators, management, and all other individuals responsible for bringing
your organization into compliance and implementing the many HIPAA requirements.
Our Level Two Test is designed for all other workforce members - staff,
volunteers, trainees, new employees and others - to fulfill HIPAA's awareness
training requirements for ensuring the confidentiality, security and integrity
of all patient protected health information.
The degree of difficulty
for Level One Tests is a bit higher due to the Privacy & Security Officer's
demands for a more elevated understanding of HIPAA's many regulations and
requirements.
All questions are based on materials found in the Federal
HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations, and our online materials including our
tutorials, faqs, implementation guidelines, policies & procedures, our
HIPAA-For-Dummies compliance guide, and our online Webinars.
A series of 20 questions are randomly
provided for you to answer. They consist of "true & false", "multiple
choice - single answer", and "multiple choice - multiple answer" questions from
our database of hundreds of questions.
At the conclusion of the test,
your results are displayed and detailed explanations to all wrong answers are
provided while the topic is fresh in your mind. You may print out the results
or you may take the test again - as often as you wish.
For your added
convenience, test results are also e-mailed to you, and can also be e-mailed
directly to your Privacy Officer for organizational record keeping and required
documentation purposes.
Our HIPAA tests are the perfect solution for
satisfying HIPAA's training documentation requirements, and are a favorite and
valuable tool for privacy officers, health care providers, health care
practices, hospitals and employees from hundreds of health care organizations
and other covered entities nationwide.
There is no limit to the number
of times you may take them and there is no time limit when taking
them.
Certificate of Achievement
A Certificate of
Achievement is available for all subscribers who sucessfully pass our HIPAA
tests.
Taken on a regular basis and combined with your test results and
copies of your Web site activities logs, you have satisfied HIPAA's training
and documentation requirements - and established a very good due diligence
program.
Customized Testing Programs
Our
testing programs can be customized to your needs. Many of our subscribers have
their own private testing area with additional questions and answers added to
our database just for their employees - with grading standards and Certificates
of Achievement also customized to their suit their needs.
We Can
Help
With our resources, experience, and expertise, our value to you
is in helping you reduce your costs, provide you and your employees with the
very best possible educational assistance, help ease your compliance burden and
reduce your potential business risks by achieving a high standard of due
diligence. Click here to contact us for more
information.
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Subscriber Activity Log
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activity logs. You may print them out or save the information for your records
as required for documentation by HIPAA. |
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| About Our Activity
Logs |
 Being able to easily and quickly
monitor and document your training activities and those of your employees is
the single most valuable mechanism you can have in satisying HIPAA's
requirements for training documentation, and for evidence of due diligence in
the event legal action is ever taken against your practice or organization for
breaches of confidentiality of protected health
information.
Confidential Information
As a CAL HIPAA
subscriber your training activity logs are available 24 hours a day for
documentation purposes. Your logs are totally confidential. Only you can
access your logs. Without your Username and Password, no one else can access or
view them. The logs display each day of the week you were online training,
what areas and pages of the web site you were studying, and how long you spent
studying each page visited. You can save the logs to your hard drive or print
them out for your records.
Click here to see an image of a sample log.
Perfect For Documenting Individual and Company Wide
Training
When it comes to documenting company-wide employee
training, there is no easier, or more thorough, or more cost effective way of
monitoring and documenting your employee's training than our activity logs.
Hospitals, clinics, and health care practices nationwide are using this
exclusive feature to document all their employee training.
In todays
highly litigious society, your reputation, your practice, your license - your
livelihood - is more at risk from the behavior of your workforce members than
from your practice being out of HIPAA compliance. The possibility of being a
defendant in a breach of confidentiality lawsuit is a reality that should not
be overlooked or under-considered. It is not enough to merely satisfy HIPAA's
workforce training requirements. You must take every practical measure to
document all your company-wide training efforts and
results.
Responsibility Flows Uphill
Management and owners
of health care practices are responsible for employee training and HIPAA
awareness. Unless your workforce is adequately and properly educated, and
unless you have documented evidence of their sucessful education, you are at
risk from criminal penalties and civil litigation.
The behavior of your
workforce members can protect your practice from fines, penalties and patient
litigation - or they can expose you to serious risks and consequences. The
difference is in the quality of training, how well the knowledge is implemented
at work, and how well the educational activities and testing are
documented.
Do-It-Yourself or Outsource?
Questions you
should consider when making a determination whether to train, test and document
your own employees or outsource it:
- Do your workforce
members currently receive training about HIPAA and safeguarding protected
health information?
- How should the training be conducted?
- Am
I qualified to give the training?
- How often should reminders and refresher training be
conducted?
- Does the training content meet all the HIPAA training
requirements?
- Is
the training content updated as HIPAA's regulations are changed or modified?
- Do
I want to take on the task and responsibility of training my workforce and risk
missing important or essential training requirements?
- Am
I prepared to create and maintain all the documentation for all my employees
necessary to satisfy HIPAA's mandates, and update and maintain them as the
regulations change?
- Who in my organization is going to be responsible for
organizing, conducting and documenting employee training?
- What happens when the person responsible for my training no
longer works for my organization?
- What is it all going to cost me to train, test and document my
workforce members vs. the cost of outsourcing?
Our Value To You
With our
resources, experience, and expertise, our value to you is in helping you...
- Reduce your
costs.
- Provide you and
your employees with the very best possible educational assistance.
- Provide you and
your employees with information that meets or exceeds HIPAA requirements.
- Ease your
compliance burden.
- Reduce your
potential business risks by achieving a high standard of due diligence.
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