What is HIPAA?

HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It is about health information efficiency, privacy and security. The industries directly impacted by the HIPAA legislation include health-care and insurance organizations and businesses in the United States. The issues that relate to HIPAA deal with the transaction efficiency, as well as the security and privacy of patient and medical records and information. This is very similar to the needs for all businesses to secure information related to employees, customers and suppliers.

What are the benefits of HIPAA to the health care industry?

HIPAA is the watershed legislation for the health-care industry. HIPAA is enabling the development of national standards to bring about consistency in data formats for health-care transactions. Besides data format consistency, another key benefit from HIPAA compliance is the substantial reduction in paper-handling costs for health-care claims. These costs are likely to be reduced from $6 to $8 per claim to less than $1.

What is a "blended learning solution?"

A blended learning solution is a combination of learning methods orchestrated to satisfy individual learning requirements. For example, IDA used a blended learning solution for the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife. The methods we used were Video Training, Instructor Led Training, CBT, and Job Aides.