Many health care providers, organizations, and insurers are not fully aware of the complex rules and regulations associated with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, widely known as HIPAA. HIPAA ensures that companies follow specific privacy and security rules for virtually all individually identifiable health information. Responding to the need to help organizations efficiently and effectively educate employees about HIPAA privacy, Succeed Management Solutions, a provider of web-based Enterprise Risk Management solutions, is now offering online HIPAA training courses.

The company is presenting three online training courses which will provide organizations the information their workforces need to ensure HIPAA awareness, understanding, and compliance. Succeed also offers HIPAA Privacy, Security and Mental Health training that covers the special protections for mental health patients.

These online courses are a cost-effective training, development and deployment solution. The training sessions can be assigned, administered, and tracked through an easy-to-use automated learning management system called Training Track, part of the Succeed Risk Management Center.

All organizations need to keep up with the rate of change in the health care industry driven by new government mandates, such as the Affordable Care Act, and technological innovations, like electronic health records. Organizations can save both time and money by having employees take HIPAA training courses on the web at their convenience.

Recently the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an update to the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule. This new update covers entities and business associates, intended to strengthen the privacy and security safeguards for protected health information (PHI) and tighten HIPAA enforcement provisions.