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Highlights from 2022: Privacy Training
Tag: HIPAA Privacy Training
Archive of posts about HIPAA privacy training by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
New Series of HIPAA Privacy Courses
I am very excited to announce that my HIPAA training programs and short courses have received a complete update and new design.
HIPAA Training Overview Page
We recently developed a new overview page that discusses my approach to HIPAA training. The page discusses several dimensions about our training, including: different comprehensive annual HIPAA privacy and security modules depending upon whether an entity is a covered entity or business associate courses to cover the material at different lengths short modules (most 5 […]
HIPAA Whiteboard and HIPAA Interactive Whiteboard
Recently, I created two new HIPAA training resources. HIPAA Whiteboard I created a 1-page visual summary of HIPAA, which I call the HIPAA Whiteboard. The idea was to summarize HIPAA in a concise and visually-engaging way. You can download a PDF handout version here. We’ve been licensing it to many organizations for training and awareness purposes. […]
HIPAA Enforcement Case – Filefax
This week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an agreement to settle HIPAA violations with Filefax, located in Northbrook, Illinois. One aspect was different than their usual settlement process in that Filefax closed the business down during the OCR investigation and was no longer operating when […]
HIPAA Enforcement 2017: Another Big Year for HIPAA Enforcement
At the end of 2017, the OCR logged just under $20 million in fines for HIPAA violations from 10 enforcement actions with monetary penalties. In 2016, the total in penalties was roughly the same amount but from 15 organizations. Here is an overview of the resolution agreements and enforcement actions with civil monetary penalties from […]
2017 HIPAA Enforcement
The first quarter of 2017 is not yet over and the OCR has already released details of four HIPAA enforcement penalties totaling over $11 million. 2016 set a record with $20 million in fines for the year, with $5.2 million of that coming in the first quarter. In just the first 2 months of […]
Lessons from 2016, the Biggest HIPAA Enforcement Year on Record
Time to call the Guinness Book of World Records because HHS has set a new world record in HIPAA enforcement. 2016 saw a considerable increase in HIPAA enforcement resolution agreements and monetary penalties. At the end of 2016, the OCR logged over $20 million in fines for HIPAA violations from 15 enforcement actions with monetary […]
HIPAA Cartoon on Snooping
This cartoon is about snooping, one of the most common HIPAA violations. HIPAA prohibits accessing information that people don’t need to do their jobs. It can be easy to look at electronic medical records, and people who snoop in this way might not perceive it as wrong. But the cartoon invites people to imagine how […]
Cartoon on HIPAA Training
This cartoon depicts the way many people perceive HIPAA training. But it doesn’t have to be this way. When most people hear HIPAA training they prepare themselves to slog through a boring lecture filled with tedious legalese. Many have been subjected to hours of training that is overly technical, not useful for their jobs and not even […]