Description

HIPAA Basic Training for Business Associates is the affordable answer to your ongoing HIPAA training challenge. This easy, 36-minute, video-based online program exceeds legal requirements and helps your workforce deal more effectively with HIPAA. Every learner receives a personalized Certificate of Completion.

Learners love our video-based, user-friendly training approach, taught by one of the leading experts in the field. HIPAA Basic Training for Business Associates also includes supporting materials like our Privacy and Security “Rules of the Road”, “HIPAA Highlights”, and other great benefits. There’s no other HIPAA course like it!

With HIPAA Basic Training for Business Associates, you can finally afford to properly train your entire workforce on HIPAA, including volunteers, consultants, and temporary help. This online course satisfies HIPAA compliance requirements in a brief course that will fit easily into the workday. This course emphasizes practical knowledge to assure compliance and avoid HIPAA violations.

Our HIPAA Basic Training for Business Associates course is designed for Business Associates of all types, including:

1. Transcriptionists
2. Contract coders
3. Contracted laboratory and radiology departments
4. Third-party billers
5. Collection agencies
6. Software vendors
7. Interpreters
8. Hospital & medical couriers
9. Pharmacies with hospital contracts
10. Contracted cleaning staff members
11. Secure shredding companies
12. Waste management companies
13. Off-site records storage facilities
14. Auditors
15. Consultants

HIPAA Basic Training for Business Associates is delivered via the Internet to any Net-capable PC. No special software, hardware, or connections are needed. This program delivers tangible benefits, and fully meets or exceeds HIPAA’s legal requirements for training on Privacy and Security.

No matter what type of Business Associate you are, HIPAA Basic Training for Business Associates will prepare your team for HIPAA and reduce your risk of HIPAA violations.

In partnership with the University of Central Florida, HIPAA Basic Training for Business Associates is created by The HIPAA Group, Inc., a national leader in HIPAA compliance. Over the years, HIPAA Group has trained thousands of people on HIPAA, including physicians, nurses, medical staff, Privacy Officers, Security Officers, managers, CEO’s, attorneys, and HIPAA Business Associates.

About HIPAA

Every American is deeply affected by HIPAA.

HIPAA is the common name for the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996". Called "the most comprehensive healthcare law since Medicare", HIPAA required over a decade to roll out all its provisions. HIPAA was dramatically expanded in 2010 with the HITECH Act, which increased HIPAA penalties and modified critical HIPAA regulations.

HIPAA is designed to accomplish several vitally important Objectives:

1. Establish Consistent Federal Rights for Patients – HIPAA supersedes the patchwork of inconsistent state-by-state laws on Patient Privacy and Medical Records Access, with a uniform federal framework of Patient Rights to access and control their own medical records and data.
2. Reduce Healthcare Fraud and Abuse – which have in recent years consumed nearly one-third of the healthcare economy.
3. Establish Federal Healthcare Transaction Standards – to replace the aging and wasteful system currently in use.
4. Allow Health Insurance Portability – to help workers keep their health insurance coverage (for themselves and their families) when they change jobs or lose their jobs.
5. Promote the Use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) – The changes to HIPAA in 2010 from the HITECH Act strongly support this goal.

Training for All Employees Is Mandated by Law
HIPAA's creators knew that all healthcare workers would have to be trained in HIPAA if the legislation was to accomplish its objectives. Therefore the law requires that all healthcare workers be trained in the essentials of HIPAA. The law mandates workforce training on the basics of HIPAA, and on each HIPAA Entity’s HIPAA-related Policies and Procedures.

Employee Behavior Is the Most Serious Organizational Risk
While many Covered Entities struggle with HIPAA compliance to avoid potential fines and sanctions, many fail to realize that employees are potentially the biggest HIPAA risk.

HIPAA regulations are clear. Simple non-compliance can bring fines and other HIPAA regulations are clear. Simple non-compliance can bring fines and other sanctions. But criminal HIPAA violations carry the most severe penalties: up to $1,500,000 and jail terms up to ten years!

Course Information

As a national leader in distance learning, UCF has won top awards for its online programs. Continuing that tradition, UCF is pleased to offer HIPAA Privacy and Security online training.

UCF’s HIPAA training program is a suite of internet-based courses that allows educational institutions, healthcare entities, Business Associates, and affected employers to train their people on the essentials of HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

UCF’s HIPAA Privacy and Security training meets the legal requirements under HIPAA for virtually all U.S. healthcare workers to be given basic training on HIPAA. In addition, many educational institutions have extensive healthcare curricula, and have a duty to train students and faculty in HIPAA. Finally, HIPAA Business Associates and most large employers, particularly those with self-funded health plans, have specific segments of their workforces that must be trained on HIPAA as well.

UCF’s HIPAA Privacy and Security training offers an easy, affordable way for all these entities to effectively train their constituents. This online program also eliminates the major barriers to training most organizations face: cost and convenience.

Our online training is delivered via the Internet to any Net-capable PC. No special software, hardware, or connections are needed. We deliver a long list of solid benefits.

Benefits of the UCF HIPAA Online Training

• Any Time -- learners can log in and learn HIPAA 24/7... all schedules are accommodated.
• Any Place -- learners can access our courses from anywhere a PC and internet connection are available: home, work, or on the road.
• Any Pace -- People learn at different rates, and our courses are flexible enough to accommodate everyone. enough to accommodate everyone.
• Low Cost -- For all its quality content, logical layout, and ease of use, our training is also the most affordable option available. For a cost equivalent to a typical student Lab Fee, learners get the most accurate and useful HIPAA training available today.
• Pay Online Easily -- "Pay online, not in line" is our motto. Learners can register and pay for our courses conveniently online, on a secure, encrypted payment system. No standing in lines or waiting for checks to post to begin learning about HIPAA.
• Consistent & Technically Accurate Training -- Avoid inconsistent HIPAA training and the risks it can bring. UCF HIPAA Privacy and Security training is the highest quality HIPAA training you can get: verified for accuracy and consistency throughout.

Legal Proof of Training Completion -- HIPAA requires that organizations retain proof of HIPAA training for each employee for a minimum of six years. UCF's HIPAA Privacy and Security training requires that all learners pass a brief quiz in order to complete the Program. When the quiz is passed, the system automatically provides the ability to print a Certificate of Completion, customized with the learner's name and date. In addition, every learners' HIPAA Training records are archived by UCF's Division of Continuing Education, which administers the HIPAA Privacy and Security training program.