HIPAA For General Employees: HIPAA Patient Rights
Learning objectives
- By the end of this lesson series, the learner will be able to:
- Explain the key aspects of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and HITECH.
- Identify the specific patient rights under HIPAA, including access to and control over their health information.
- Describe the procedures for providing patients with a Notice of Privacy Practices and obtaining signed authorizations for disclosures.
- Understand the importance of timely compliance with patient requests for accessing, amending, and transferring their PHI.
Course overview
HIPAA and HITECH are laws which give patients more control over their protected health information (PHI) in the United States. Patients have the right to view and transfer their information, as well as to indicate what can and cannot be shared. This course looks at what rights patients have, and the role covered entities play in ensuring them.
- 6 minutes
- Format: Video
- English