Security Awareness Training

211 - HIPAA Security for Healthcare Staff

The HIPAA Security Rule covers a wide range of provisions to improve the way that patient information is secured against disclosure, modification or destruction. It also requires that all staff (including management) with access to patient information must be provided with security awareness training including specific topics such as avoiding malicious software and managing passwords.

This course covers the following topics:

• What is a virus and how might it affect you?
• How can you get a virus?
• How to handle email attachments.
• What to do if you think you've been infected.
• Hoaxes and chain letters.
• How to handle passwords safely.
• How to choose good passwords.
• Monitoring of login success/failure.

The course also touches on other key areas of information security including physical security, social engineering and the use of email. Because of the broad scope of the HIPAA Security Rule. This course takes about 60 minutes to complete.