Remote & Online Jobs: post #1007 — TG.ME

𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 8 of 10 #MedicalVirtualAssistant #MedicalVA #HIPAA #PatientPrivacy #RemoteHealthcareJobs If you want to work remotely with a U.S. healthcare organization, you will often hear one important word: 𝗛𝗜𝗣𝗔𝗔 HIPAA is a U.S. federal law that includes rules for protecting patients’ health information. As a Medical VA, understanding patient privacy is extremely important. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #WhatIsPHI PHI means Protected Health Information. Examples can include: Patient name Date of birth Medical records Diagnosis information Insurance information Phone number or email when connected to health information Your employer should train you on exactly how its systems and policies handle PHI. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #MedicalVARules When working with patient information: Only access information needed for your work Never share patient screenshots Never discuss patients with unauthorized people Use only approved work systems Never share passwords Lock your computer when away Follow your employer’s privacy and security procedures ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ImportantExample Imagine a friend asks: “What condition does that patient have?” Even if you saw the information while working, you should not disclose it. Patient information is not yours to share. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #HIPAATraining Start learning directly from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HIPAA for Professionals https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/index.html HIPAA Privacy Rule https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/index.html HIPAA Security Rule https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/security/index.html ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ActionTask Today: Learn what HIPAA means Learn what PHI means Read the HIPAA Privacy Rule introduction Write down 5 examples of patient information you should protect Do not put real patient information in your practice examples or portfolio. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #CommunityQuestion Before this series, did you know what HIPAA and PHI meant? Yes No I had heard of HIPAA but didn’t understand it ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #MedicalVA #HIPAA #PHI #PatientPrivacy #HealthcareJobs #RemoteJobs #OnlineJobs #WorkFromHome #VirtualAssistant HIPAA, PHI, patient privacy, medical virtual assistant, medical VA, healthcare virtual assistant, remote healthcare jobs, patient confidentiality