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HIPAA Privacy Training

Working in public child welfare requires you to gather information about family members' physical and mental health, personal histories and other sensitive, private topics. As you learned in your online preservice, keeping families' information confidential is a requirement of ethical practice because it preserves the basic right to privacy that we all enjoy.

Safeguarding confidentiality is also a legal requirement. Both federal and state law establish strict rules about collecting, sharing and storing confidential information. These rules are intended to protect families' privacy while still allowing them to receive help.

This online presentation will introduce you to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule (federal law) as well as state confidentiality laws that you must follow at all times.

You can view an online version of the presentation or download a PDF version.