Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for Cancer Registrars

The Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects individually identifiable health information. All healthcare workers need to have a clear understanding of what is considered confidential information. This online course is intended to review HIPAA-related law regarding health issues, civil vs.criminal law, protection of cancer data confidentiality, the transmission, and the release of cancer registry data. To successfully complete this course a score of 7% or higher must be achieved on the final exam.

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

•      Identify types of confidential information.
•      Describe best practices for safeguarding informationin spoken,written, or in electronic formats.
•      Describe your responsibilities for protecting information and reporting violations
•      Identify consequences for violations.
•      Demonstrate knowledge and applicability of HIPAA to the cancer registry