HIPAA Level 1 Essentials

Practical introductory training for recognizing and protecting PHI and ePHI, making safer everyday decisions, and reporting privacy or security concerns. This course supports workforce awareness and is not legal advice or a substitute for organization-specific policies.

Estimated duration: 45 min
Course structure: 8 modules
Lessons: 8 lessons

Outcomes

What you’ll be able to do

Recognize PHI and ePHI in common work situations.
Choose safer actions for access, communication, screens, paper, and devices.
Report suspected privacy or security concerns promptly and factually.

Course outline

8 lessons · 45 min

Lessons open in order. Finish each one, and any quiz after it, to open the next.

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Module 1

Orientation

Learn how the course works, use Pause. Check. Protect. Report., and practice immediate feedback.

Module objectives

Use the Pause, Check, Protect, Report decision habit.
Recognize how short scenarios, practical rules, and immediate feedback work together.
Choose a safer action and explain why it reduces privacy or security risk.

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Orientation

Video · 3 min

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Module 2

HIPAA scope and role boundaries

Understand what HIPAA protects, who has duties, and where your responsibility begins and ends.

Module objectives

Recognize when HIPAA applies to the work context.
Connect privacy, security, and breach concepts to everyday actions.
Route questions that exceed your role.

HIPAA scope and role boundaries

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Module 3

Recognize PHI and ePHI

Before you can protect information, you have to spot it in ordinary work.

Module objectives

Recognize identifiers and health-related information together.
Spot PHI in spoken, paper, and electronic formats.
Treat uncertainty as a reason to protect and verify.

Recognize PHI and ePHI

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Module 4

Access, use, and disclosure

Connect every action with PHI to a legitimate job purpose.

Module objectives

Connect access to an assigned job task.
Limit information to the purpose of the work.
Stop curiosity access and informal favors.

Access, use, and disclosure

Video · 3 min · Create a free account or sign in to open

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Module 5

Protect PHI in daily work

Use reasonable safeguards for conversations, screens, paper, messages, and mobile work.

Module objectives

Protect verbal PHI in shared and public spaces.
Secure screens, devices, paper, and remote work.
Use approved communication and social-media practices.

Protect PHI in daily work

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Module 6

Requests, family, and individual rights

Be helpful without making a disclosure decision outside your role.

Module objectives

Verify requesters through the approved process.
Handle family and caregiver questions without automatic disclosure or automatic refusal.
Recognize rights-related requests and route them promptly.

Requests, family, and individual rights

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Module 7

Security awareness and approved technology

Protect ePHI by recognizing suspicious activity and avoiding unapproved tools.

Module objectives

Recognize phishing and suspicious system activity.
Protect credentials, devices, and accounts.
Use only approved tools for PHI and ePHI.

Security awareness and approved technology

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Module 8

Report incidents and recognize stricter rules

Report early, preserve facts, and escalate sensitive or unusual situations.

Module objectives

Recognize privacy and security events that need review.
Report facts without deleting evidence or promising outcomes.
Escalate state-law and special-record red flags.

Report incidents and recognize stricter rules

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