HIPAA RESOURCES
Welcome to the comprehensive catalog of HIPAA resources provided by Professor Daniel Solove of TeachPrivacy.com. This page is designed to offer valuable insights and tools for understanding and complying with HIPAA regulations, focusing on privacy, security, and the protection of health information. Whether you are a healthcare provider, an organization handling health data, or an individual seeking to understand HIPAA, this resource page is tailored to meet your needs.
HIPAA Training
HIPAA Whiteboard – Professor Daniel Solove distills HIPAA to just one page in whiteboard form! This whiteboard covers HIPAA Governance, the Scope of HIPAA, Protected Health Information (PHI), Confidentiality and Snooping, Disclosures under HIPAA, the Minimum Necessary Rule, Authorization, HIPAA Security, HIPAA Data Breaches, and HIPAA Enforcement.
HIPAA Interactive Whiteboard – This program (~5 mins) is an interactive whiteboard that summarizes HIPAA succinctly and is based on our HIPAA whiteboard poster and handout. It can readily be used on internal websites to raise awareness and teach basic information about HIPAA. It is also useful as a refresher course or as a resource to remind people of key aspects of HIPAA on an as-needed basis.
Top 5 Essentials for HIPAA Training – A concise reference highlighting the most important elements of a HIPAA training program.
What Are the Requirements for HIPAA Training? – In this blog post, Professor Solove discusses that although HIPAA’s Privacy Rule and HIPAA’s Security Rule both have separate HIPAA training requirements, the requirements in both rules are rather sparse — not a lot of guidance is provided. He shares the topics he believes should be covered under each rule.
HIPAA Training Guide – HIPAA has extensive training requirements, and they are often a source of many questions. To whom do they apply? What topics must be covered? How often must people be trained? This HIPAA Training Guide, written by Professor Daniel Solove, will walk you through the HIPAA training requirements and explain what is required. It will also provide information about the most common HIPAA training best practices.
HIPAA Training Requirements FAQ – In this extensive FAQ, Professor Daniel Solove walks through the HIPAA training requirements and explains what is required and what isn’t. He also provides information about what many institutions do for HIPAA training and his thoughts about best practices.
HIPAA Training Requirements: HIPAA Text – This documents provides the text of HIPAA Privacy Rule
45 CFR § 164.530(b)(1) and HIPAA Security Rule 45 CFR § 164.308(a)(5).
HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
HIPAA Enforcement Guide – The guide includes Professor Solove’s analysis of HIPAA enforcement trends as well as his advice for how to avoid being targeted by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for a penalty. Topics covered in the 11-page PDF include the Anatomy of a HIPAA Enforcement Action, the Scope and Story of HIPAA Enforcement, HIPAA Enforcement Before and After HITECH, HIPAA Enforcement Statistics and HIPAA Resolution Agreement Summaries by Year, HIPAA Enforcement Cases with Monetary Penalities from 2008 through 2018, State HIPAA Enforcement, The Big Picture of HIPA Enforcement, and Professor Solove’s Analysis and Takeaways.
HIPAA Enforcement FAQ – This FAQ by Professor Daniel Solove addresses questions including: Who Enforces HIPAA? Can People Sue for HIPAA Violations? How Frequently Does OCR Issue Financial Penalties? How Painful Is HIPAA’s Sting? and more.
HIPAA Security Rule Checklist – The HIPAA Security Rule covers electronic protected health information (ePHI), which is any individually identifiable health information in electronic format. It has 18 safeguards standards, each of which is mandatory, along with 36 implementation specifications. Professor Daniel Solove created this 6-page checklist of the HIPAA Security Rule’s standards and specifications to help summarize them in a user-friendly manner. This checklist covers the HIPAA Administrative Safeguards, HIPAA Physical Safeguards, and HIPAA Technical Safeguards.
HIPAA Audits
HIPAA Audit Guide & Protocol Checklist – Professor Daniel Solove and Maggie Gloeckle have written a set of references to help you navigate the process of preparing for a HIPAA audit. The HIPAA Audit Guide provides a detailed overview of the audit process covering OCR’s selection criteria, types of audits and timelines. They have also provided some of the questions to prepare for and samples of the types of documents you will see during the audit. The HIPAA Audit Protocol Checklist is an Excel document that consists of a chart with the information that HHS will look for when they conduct an audit. They have taken this information from HHS and have put it into an easy-to-use and organized format, where you can filter, search, and adjust the list as necessary. You can add your notes to it as well.
About Professor Solove and TeachPrivacy
Professor Daniel J. Solove is a law professor at George Washington University Law School and the leading expert on privacy and data security law. He has taught privacy law every year since 2000, has published 10 books and more than 50 articles, including the leading textbook on information privacy law and a short guidebook on the subject. His LinkedIn blog has more than 1 million followers. Click here for more information about Professor Solove.
TeachPrivacy provides HIPAA training, privacy awareness training, information security awareness training, phishing training, FERPA training, PCI training, as well as training on many other privacy and security topics. TeachPrivacy was founded by Professor Solove, who is deeply involved in the creation of all training programs because he believes that training works best when made by subject-matter experts and by people with extensive teaching experience.
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