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3 Parts to Every Privacy Awareness Training Plan

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Jean Eaton in Blog, Clinic Manager / Privacy Officer, Employee, Established Practice, New Practice, Services

Reasonable Safeguards – the Myth

You may have heard the myth that the Health Information Act (HIA) is a big scary thing that will interrupt your routine, rob you of countless billable hours, impact all of your staff, turn your office inside out, and change the way that you run your entire business!

Myth Buster

The HIA provides structure and framework for reasonable safeguards that apply to any healthcare business.

One of the requirements of reasonable safeguards includes having a privacy awareness training plan.

     
Privacy Awareness Training

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Privacy Awareness Training

Your Privacy Awareness Training Plan should include learning objectives throughout the year, including

  • Orientation – Standardized training curriculum provided to everyone in you healthcare practice at the time of employment. This is often included during a new employee’s orientation period.
  • Specific – Privacy training that is more detailed and specific to the roles and responsibilities of that individual’s job in your healthcare practice. There may also be specific training when new software, technology, or procedures are introduced anytime throughout the employment.
  • Reward – Keep privacy awareness top of mind all year long. Recognize and reward when individuals follow privacy principles that also add value to your client satisfaction or business efficiency.

It is reasonable to expect regular privacy awareness training, especially at orientation, and a formal review annually.

What a Privacy Awareness Training Plan Can Do For You

When you implement regular privacy awareness training, you will see:

  • Privacy and security expectations clearly communicated among your team.
  • Team members demonstrate their commitment to privacy, confidentiality, security of personal health information.
  • Efficient practices that protect the privacy and save you time and money
  • Team members confidently and correctly handle personal health information using reasonable safeguards

Are You a Myth-Buster?

You can be a myth-buster, too, and implement privacy awareness training in your healthcare practice.

You can easily implement reasonable safeguards and meet HIA requirements to ensure privacy, confidentiality, and security of health information that saves you time, frustration and money.

If you need a little help, I have written a practical privacy awareness training course designed for the community health care practice. This is ideal for orientation of new employees and a refresher for the rest of us.

Privacy Awareness in Healthcare: Essentials

Understand basic health care privacy principles and how to handle personal information, use safeguards, and recognize and report a privacy breach.

Ideal for community-based health care professionals and staff, direct care providers, or anyone working with a health care, dental, or social services organization.

An effective privacy compliance program promotes organizational adherence to the Health Information Act (HIA), Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) Alberta, Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) Ontario and the Personal Information Protection of Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) requirements. A compliance program is your first line of defense to promote the prevention of criminal conduct, and enforce government rules and regulations, while providing quality care to patients. All three training products help protect practices against privacy and security breaches, improper payments, fraud and abuse, and other potential liability areas through education.

Canadian Health Care Privacy Training Solutions

Corridor’s online training makes it easy for health care organizations to comply with provincial and federal legislation that mandates regular privacy training for all health care providers, staff, and vendors.

Select the training that best fits your needs:

NEW! Privacy Awareness in Healthcare Training: Dental Practices – Alberta

Dentists and dental practices in Alberta are required to have an ongoing privacy program to ensure the protection of private records and patient information. The appropriate collection, use, and disclosure of personal information is critical to maintaining privacy for patients that choose to trust in your practice. Accomplishing this important goal demands an up-to-date training strategy.

Privacy Awareness in Health Care Training – Canada

Includes detailed resources for each province and territory with key terminology and links to applicable privacy legislation. Resources are provided for our ten provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and three territories: Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon. This new product is ideal for both organizations and vendors who provide health care services or have health care clients in more than one province.

Privacy Awareness in Health Care Training – Alberta 

Includes the mandatory privacy breach notification amendments to the Health Information Act (HIA).

Privacy Awareness in Health Care Training – Ontario

Specifically covers all legislation and rules specific to the province of Ontario including the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA).

Refresher: Privacy Awareness in Health Care – Alberta

A quiz-based review of Corridor’s full Privacy Awareness course. The Refresher starts with an initial quiz to assess knowledge on the topics and information covered in the full course. Based on the quiz results, one or more of eight Refresher topic quizzes must be completed, each focusing on a specific subject area. The Refresher also includes access to the original course content.

 

Privacy Awareness in Healthcare: Essentials

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How to Hire Employees for Your Healthcare Practice!

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Jean Daffin in Blog, Clinic Manager / Privacy Officer, Employee, New Practice, PMN Stitcher, Practice Management Nugget Interview, Training

New healthcare practices practice managers and owners frequently ask how to hire employees. Join us for the free webinar,

9 Steps to Hire (and Keep) Employees in Your Healthcare Practice

Jean Eaton B Admin, CHIM, CC of Information Managers Ltd. will share with you hiring process that you can use right away to find your ideal candidate.

In this FREE 30-minute Practice Management Nugget Webinar Jean will give you practical information, tools and resources to: 

  • Hire and retain the right employee – the first time!
  • Develop hiring policies, procedures, and forms to make hiring painless.
  • Develop great first impressions to attract the ideal candidate to your practice.

 

The right employee:

  • is productive and provides good services to your patients and clients
  • will create a positive place to work and to receive care
  • will promote your business

Doesn't it make sense to prepare now to hire the right employee?

Register for the Webinar!

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Jean Eaton has worked in health records and primary care organizations for over twenty years, and is an experienced leader in health information management.

She understands that practice managers working in healthcare want to provide quality services and have a profitable business… and is committed to helping practices with the networking and resources to get where they want to be.

 

 

Register for the Webinar!

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9 Steps to Hiring Employees for Your Healthcare Practice

with Jean Eaton of Information Managers Ltd.

BONUS! Register for the webinar and receive the FREE E-book,

 9 Steps to Hiring Employees for Your Healthcare Practice

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Webinar Training

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Jean Eaton in Clinic Manager / Privacy Officer, Employee, Established Practice, New Practice, Vendor

Our webinar series provides an opportunity for you to access practical resources that you can immediately put to work.

Public Webinars

Short presentations that get you started on the topic and links to additional practical resources that you can use right away. Available in audio only or webinar.
Introduction – Privacy Breach
Introduction – Privacy Awareness
Introduction – E-Mail and Patients

 Webinars by Registration

Cost-effective detailed discussions on a variety of topics. Your registration includes opportunities to interact with the speaker and other participants through questions and discussions, access to forums to post questions between sessions, learning resource guides and other resources that you can use right away.
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Organizations can also request a customized version of our in-person workshops for delivery by webinar. Contact us today to learn more.

Privacy Awareness Customized Training

by Webinar now available in a 1 year license.

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I have used Corridor's Privacy Awareness in Healthcare: Essentials online training program. The course has helped satisfy the training requirements of the Health Information Act. Staff go through the course at their own pace while we monitor to ensure completion.

- Luke Brimmage, Executive Director, Aspen Primary Care Network

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