Avoiding Common HIPAA Violations - Video Lesson

Welcome back to our lessons on guidelines and regulations governing patient care. In this video, we will be discussing the common ways healthcare workers might violate HIPAA regulations and ways these violations may be avoided. Being diligent in upholding HIPAA regulations is essential to providing quality, trustworthy patient care, and not doing so could lead to professional discipline or legal liability for you as a practitioner. Let's begin with the most common HIPAA violation. The unauthorized sharing of a patient's protected health information or PHI. PHI includes any patient health information falling into these three basic categories. Health conditions, treatment, and billing. The improper sharing of patient information can happen in many different ways depending on the patient, audience, and context. Sharing this personal patient information in any way with unauthorized personnel, including friends, family, or colleagues who are not directly involved in the patient's care