Welcome to “HIPAA: The Basics,” a video lesson meant to provide a broad overview of HIPAA’s background and its main rules for handling sensitive information. This lesson is the first of four in the “HIPAA Crash Course,” which is intended to provide a quick but comprehensive look at HIPAA and how it’s applied to the workplace. From this lesson, you’ll learn about what HIPAA is and its history of updates, including the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), the Omnibus Rule, and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). Then, this lesson describes the three main rules of HIPAA: the Privacy Rule, the Security Rule, and the Breach Notification Rule. By watching this lesson, you’ll gain good understanding of the fundamentals of HIPAA.
