The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, was introduced to address the problems that can arise with health insurance when someone changes jobs or becomes uninsured for any period of time. The most profound impact to community pharmacies was a requirement that they take steps to ensure the privacy of all patient information, the security of any data stored or transmitted electronically and to notify a patient when there has been a breach so that they might take steps against identify theft.

Explain what HIPAA is and the effect that HIPAA has on pharmacy operations by HIPAA Training,

Define Protected Health Information, List the patient’s rights under HIPAA,

Explain the contents of a Notice of Privacy Practice and understand to whom the notice must be given, Medtrainer offers HIPAA Training Program to Understand how to maintain privacy when interacting with a patient’s family, friends and caregivers, and List safeguards to maintain patient privacy in day-to-day pharmacy operations.

Duration: 15 min. CE Credits: NA Chapters: 1