HIPAA Training: People Are Your Weakest Link (2020 Edition)
HIPAA Training: Because People Are Your Weakest Link
DID YOU KNOW THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF HIPAA VIOLATIONS IS HUMAN ERROR?
HIPAA training is the only fix for this.
After all, computers don’t click on phishing emails… Humans do.
Healthcare minus HIPAA training is a total disaster. You’re constantly stalked and trolled by increasingly sophisticated hackers while the Office for Civil Rights waits patiently for you to break one of their loosely defined rules so they can gleefully levy massive fines on your practice and blast you on their “Portal of Shame.”
If this all sounds rather daunting, that’s because it is.
You can, however, take a small bit of solace knowing that you are FAR from alone…
There is a severe lack of HIPAA training, even though it’s the missing link between HIPAA compliance and a total compliance disaster. And that’s because HIPAA is complex, HIPAA is confusing, HIPAA is cumbersome, HIPAA is scary… But why?
Part of the problem is that, while HIPAA’s laws are vague, its penalties are clearly defined and swiftly delivered. Not understanding how to NOT violate HIPAA laws, but knowing that you will be in hot water for something you don’t understand, leads to uncertainty and anxiety. HIPAA is hard to understand, and we often fear that which we do not understand. And when something is hard to understand, the most noteworthy accomplishment is mastering it.
Hence, HIPAA training is paramount.
But how do you teach something you yourself don’t understand? That’s where Petronella Technology Group (PTG) comes in!
You likely googled us because HIPAA causes you anxiety. Lucky for you, HIPAA doesn’t give US anxiety… In fact, we here at PTG laugh in the face of HIPAA auditors! Well, not literally, because that would be rude – and we are good people.
But what we mean is that we understand HIPAA, so we no longer fear it. We’ve taken the time to learn the ins and outs of HIPAA, and now we dance in time with it instead of shivering in the corner, scared it will ask us to dance. We can get you to the other side of the maze, where we are.
We don’t say this to brag. We say this so that you understand just how important HIPAA training is for not only yourself but for every single person in your practice. Once you have mastered this knowledge, you will feel so accomplished, and you’ll dare the OCR to audit you. You remember that feeling you would get when you would do your homework the night before and you couldn’t wait for the teacher to call on you? Mastering HIPAA feels just like that. But better.
HIPAA AND YOUR EMPLOYEES
If you have a medical practice, your employees are likely familiar with HIPAA. But to what extent?
- Do they know about secure passwords, and do they have privacy screens so patients can’t see what they type?
- Do they know about links, to click or not to click?
- Do they know to lock the file cabinet that holds patient files?
- Do they know how to report a breach?
- Do they know when to report a breach?
- Do they know how fast they need to report a breach?
- Do they know who they can release patient records to, and what they can release?
- Do they know what permissions they need in order to release information?
- Do they have their Alexa and Siri turned off, so they are not violating HIPAA privacy laws, as these entities are always listening?
- Do they know what security they need to have in place on their personal devices when they access your network?
- Do they know what HITECH is?
