As per rules of HIPAA, every individual whose working in a covered entity and handles medical records (electronic and on papers) of patients, must undergo HIPAA certification training. This training must be provided a qualified instructor. This training is provided by independent training centers. Companies hire professionals from these centers to train and educate their employees and high level management about every aspect of HIPAA. Once the training is completed, the training institutes provides a HIPAA certification to every employee who has completed the training successfully. These certifications are used to prove the skills of the employees during OCR inspections. HIPPA training can be done in many different manners. The employees can choose a one-on-one instructor led training method, classroom training, online training, virtual classroom training or on-site training. Different companies choose different methods to provide this training. Covered entities like hospitals, health insurance providers, healthcare clearing houses etc. are required by the law to provide training to their employees. Failure to comply with this law might end-up in a fine for them. Most covered entities prefer to provide group training instead of one-on-one training as it is much more time consuming. In big companies, one-on-one training may also cost too much and ...

Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for enforcing and managing (HIPAA) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The department mandates certifications for various entities in the compliance of this law. There are no official companies which provide these certifications. The covered entities, which include hospitals, health care providers, health insurance companies, doctors, etc., are required conduct evaluations which classify the extent to which covered entities comply with the requirements of HIPAA law. These evaluations can be done internally or externally by an organization which will provide a certification that the entity’s policies and procedures regarding security of data are in compliance with the law. Here, it should be noted that an individual who has the access to confidential identifiable information of people, doesn’t require having HIPAA certification. Rather, he or she must undergo training to learn the right methods to handle the data. Following entities require HIPAA certification: Covered Entity – Every conduct entity is required comply with each and every rule listed in HIPAA. The HHS office of General (OIG) conduct regular audits and inspections to ensure that all the security and privacy rules are being followed. These inspections are done onsite and prior information is sent to the entity. OIG ...