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About Privacy and Confidentiality for Non-HIPAA Covered Entities
You work for a company that provides services to many people. You may need to discuss personal information about the people you serve, but this must be done thoughtfully. Everyone’s personal information must be kept safe.
Explain how to protect confidential information.
Recall what to do when confidential information is shared without consent.
Adverse Events and Medical Errors: Response and Analysis
This course will address the importance of reporting errors for prevention of future adverse events and improved patient safety, as well as the role of root cause analysis (RCA) as an investigation tool for identifying the underlying systems failures that may have led to the error. It will also examine the benefits and barriers to reporting and the role of healthcare culture in reporting. Finally, it will explain the basic process of reporting that is common in most healthcare organizations.
Describe the systems approach to medical errors and how it increases the likelihood that errors are reported.
Understand the benefits of reporting errors, especially the importance of reporting errors for patient safety improvements.
Identify the barriers to reporting errors and the role that healthcare culture plays.
Explain the basic process of reporting errors in a healthcare organization.
Explain the purpose of RCA, and describe the guidelines for the use of this investigation tool.
Applying HIPAA Regulations in Behavioral Health
HIPAA rules underlie every service related to behavioral health, and they change to meet evolving trends. There are potentially catastrophic organizational and individual consequences if the current HIPAA rules are not followed. This course will help you to identify potential legal and ethical issues related to HIPAA, improve your compliance approach, and develop more effective risk management strategies.
The goal of this course is to assist alcohol and drug counselors, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, psychologists, social workers, and nurses in health and human services settings in understanding and applying current HIPAA regulations.
Indicate the purpose of HIPAA and how it applies to behavioral healthcare providers.
Recall at least three ways that the Privacy Rule impacts the day-to-day responsibilities of behavioral health providers.
Identify at least three steps that behavioral health providers need to take to ensure compliance with the Security Rule.