ChartOne to Offer Web-based HIPAA Training; New Online Course Trains Healthcare Information Management Professionals in HIPAA Privacy Rules.Business Editors and Health/Medical Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2003 ChartOne(TM) Inc., today released "Embrace HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, with Confidence," an online multimedia training course for professionals in healthcare information management. ChartOne developed the course specifically to train release-of-information professionals in the new HIPAA Privacy Rule regulations. The online course, which is now available on ChartOne's Web site, www.chartone.com, is based on the company's seminar series, "What you Need to Know about HIPAA." The Web-based version of the course makes the seminar content available to those unable to attend the half-day seminars currently being conducted across the country. Topics include accounting of disclosures, professional responsibilities, rights under HIPAA, common breaches, addressing privacy violations, and more. The interactive format combines video, text, audio and quiz questions. Following the course is a final exam Noun 1. final exam - an examination administered at the end of an academic term final examination, final exam, examination, test - a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of that, when completed successfully, earns the exam-taker two Continuing Education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). credits in "AHIMA AHIMA American Health Information Management Association (Chicago, IL) Core Content - External Forces". Throughout the last year, ChartOne has taken a leadership position in addressing HIPAA. As a provider of patient chart management systems, ChartOne developed an application suite that meets all HIPAA regulations regarding patient privacy and the release of information. ChartOne also puts its employees through rigorous training on HIPAA including the online "Embrace HIPAA with confidence" course. The release of the training course comes less than three months before the HIPAA Privacy Rule goes into effect. "Healthcare organizations are starting to feel the pressure to get their employees trained before April 14," says ChartOne Corporate Compliance Officer April Robertson. "This online program provides them the opportunity to train one or several individuals immediately and in a cost effective manner." About ChartOne, Inc. ChartOne offers healthcare organizations a complete range of patient chart management solutions that combine professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. with best-of-breed technologies to meet both short-term and long-term patient chart needs. ChartOne solutions free healthcare organizations to focus on their core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
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