3 Parts to Every Privacy Awareness Training Plan

3 Parts to Every Privacy Awareness Training Plan

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.

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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.

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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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Small Business Tech Day

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The Privacy Playbook: 6 Steps to Small Business Privacy Compliance

I’m Jean L. Eaton, your Practical Privacy Coach and Practice Management Mentor. I help healthcare providers and clinic managers implement privacy best practices, like pulling together the right forms and paperwork to use with their employees and patients and implementing privacy best practices.

Whether it’s improving privacy workflow, understanding the impact of breaches, working with privacy legislation, privacy impact assessments, or mentoring privacy practices among staff, I make privacy in healthcare simple and straightforward.

I have found that when small business use these 6 steps to small business privacy compliance:

  • your privacy management program operates smoothly every month
  • you avoid nasty privacy and security incidents
  • your business operates more efficiently

When you focus on proper privacy and security practices, compliance falls into place.

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Roughly 61% of all SMBs were the target of at least one cyber-attack in the past few years, which can equal hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue. It’s no longer a question of IF you’ll get hacked, but WHEN. Millions of organizations are being held hostage by cybercriminals and hackers. During this session, you’ll get actionable steps to take to proactively protect your business from lost profits and irreparable reputational damage.

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Your business needs to be prepared for current programs and technology and what’s on track to possibly disrupt it further.

“How To Get Your Business To Run On Its Own” with Mike Michalowicz

You can have the freedom to take a vacation or some well-deserved time off.

“The Privacy Playbook: 6 Steps to Small Business Privacy Compliance” with Jean L. Eaton

When you focus on proper privacy and security practices, compliance falls into place. Grab my 6 steps to help you right away.

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Think Like a Hacker: Safeguarding Your Business in the Digital Age

Think Like a Hacker: Safeguarding Your Business in the Digital Age

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‘Think Like a Hacker: Safeguarding Your Business in the Digital Age’

Cyber Crime is Climbing in Healthcare

The rise of cybercrime in healthcare is alarming.

“The Healthcare vertical is highly targeted by ransomware gangs, which results in both the loss of use of their systems—potentially with life-threatening consequences—as well as data breaches.” 

Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)

Accurate Networks and Armour Insurance Help You To Prevent Cyber Crime

‘Think Like a Hacker: Safeguarding Your Business in the Digital Age’ event is sponsored by Accurate Network Services and Armour Insurance.

Cybercrime, hacking, and privacy breaches are the biggest risks facing any organization today. Regardless of your size or industry—you are a target.

Think Like a Hacker to Protect Your Practice

Constable Jon Cook, an RCMP Cybercrimes Investigator, will share his experience from the front lines of this new frontier of cybercrime. Find out how hackers use social engineering and other common hacking methods that threaten your practice. Use these examples to identify potential weak spots and risk in your healthcare practice.

Safeguard Personal Health Information and Your Business

Join us for an interactive Q&A session with industry experts in Medical, Privacy, Insurance, IT, and Law Enforcement. We will answer your questions and offer you practical advice on how to protect against cyber risks.

I’ll be there to discuss privacy compliance and safeguards that you can take to prevent hackers in your medical or dental practice.

Stay and mingle with other attendees while enjoying complimentary appetizers and drinks at the historic Bell in Scona.

Don’t wait until it’s too late!

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