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Practical HIPAA for IT, Security, and Compliance Professionals

HIPAA is one of the most widely cited regulations in healthcare — and one of the most misunderstood.

If you work with systems, data, vendors, or security controls that touch healthcare information, HIPAA applies to you. And yet, most HIPAA training either turns the regulation into legal theory, or reduces it to a checklist that falls apart in real environments.

This course was built to fix that.

Who This Course Is For

This course is designed for professionals who need working knowledge, not legal trivia:

• IT and Security professionals supporting healthcare systems

• GRC, Risk, and Compliance teams

• Internal and external auditors

• SaaS vendors, MSPs, and consultants serving healthcare organizations

• Technical leaders responsible for HIPAA-aligned decisions

If you’ve ever completed HIPAA training and still wondered “how does this actually apply to my systems?” — you’re in the right place.

What Makes This HIPAA Course Different

This is not a legal deep dive, and it’s not “HIPAA for clinicians.”

Instead, this course explains how HIPAA actually works inside real organizations, and how it’s evaluated during audits, investigations, and breaches.

You’ll learn HIPAA as a risk-based accountability framework, not a static set of rules.

That means:

• Understanding why HIPAA requirements exist

• Knowing where PHI really lives

• Seeing how organizations fail — even when they think they’re compliant

• Learning what regulators actually look for after incidents

No filler. No legal rabbit holes. No compliance theater.

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Clearly explain what HIPAA requires — and what it does not

• Identify protected health information (PHI) across modern systems

• Understand who is legally responsible, including vendors and subcontractors

• Apply the HIPAA Security Rule in real IT environments

• Understand the Privacy Rule beyond policy language

• Explain how the HITECH Act changed enforcement and breach expectations

• See why malware, encryption, and logging matter under HIPAA

• Understand how breaches are evaluated after something goes wrong

• Make defensible security and governance decisions

This course is designed to make you confident, not just informed.

Course Structure (Built for Efficiency)

• ~1 hour total runtime

• Short, focused videos

• Clear, consistent slide design

• Narration-first delivery — easy to watch end to end, or listen during a commute

• No wasted time on topics that don’t matter operationally

You can complete this course in a single sitting — or break it into practical segments as needed.

About the Instructor

My name is Jake, and I’m a long-time IT, cybersecurity, and governance professional.

I’ve spent years working at the intersection of:

• Security

• Compliance

• Risk management

• Real-world operations

I’ve seen HIPAA programs that hold up under audits and investigations — and many more that collapse under pressure. Almost always, they fail for the same predictable reasons.

This course is built around those patterns.

It reflects how HIPAA is actually enforced, not how it’s described in theory.

What This Course Is — and Is Not

This course IS:

• Practical

• Clear

• Grounded in real environments

• Designed for professionals, not lawyers

This course is NOT:

• A legal certification

• A policy template library

• A checkbox compliance walkthrough

• A tool demo course

If you want to understand HIPAA well enough to make better decisions and defend them, this course was built for you.