Medical Documentation and Record-Keeping: HIPAA

Language: English

Short Description: Medical Documentation and Record-Keeping: HIPAA is a course that provides a professional understanding of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the best practices for medical record keeping and documentation.
This course begins by giving an overview of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA"), the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information ("Privacy Rule"), covered entities and uses and disclosures of information. It then dives deeper to explain the best practices of medical record keeping and documentation using real life scenarios. Lastly it explains the US HIPAA laws in a healthcare setting and how to implement this act with patients, with 100% accuracy. Learners will then be assessed on how to apply these practices within both clinical and administrative healthcare environments.

Instructor Description: Though this course is self-paced, it is supported by a client adviser. Client advisers are available to answer student questions and monitor student progress to ensure completion of the course. Motivating and encouraging students, the client adviser gives students inspiration to succeed.

Certification: The Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP) exam validates knowledge and skills in the core areas of HIPAA Administrative Simplification legislation, Transactions and Code Sets Requirements, Privacy Requirements and Security Requirements. The Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP) exam is administered online through the HIPAA Certification Online and can be taken 24 hours a day, worldwide. To register for the exam please visit http://www.ecfirst.biz The testing fee of $495 can be made with a credit card via a secure web page.

Requirements
This program does not require any additional purchases of supplementary materials.