HIPAA Guidelines and Training

There are new privacy standards reflected in the HIPAA legislation. In order to be in compliance with the new HIPAA privacy regulations, every University of Minnesota student, faculty member, researcher, and staff person are required to complete four on-line courses about privacy and data security. Everyone will need to complete the following four courses:

• The Video Awareness course
• The Safeguarding PHI course
• The Privacy and Confidentiality in the Clinical Setting course
• The Privacy and Confidentiality in Research course

Step-by-step instructions can be found on the Privacy and Security Projects Web Site at http://www.privacysecurity.umn.edu. Follow the link entitled “University HIPAA Training.”

Technical assistance is available by calling 301-HELP or 1-Help (internal). If access to a computer is an issue, the computer lab in the Bio-Medical Library on the 2nd Floor of Diehl Hall has been made available. Please feel free to call the Privacy Office at 612-624-7447 if you have any questions or concerns. EVERY EFFORT will be made to assist you in completing this process.