| HealthStream |
Annually, workforce members of Howard University Health Sciences (HUHS) are provided compliance trainings related to healthcare privacy (HIPAA), security, and safety in order to remain compliant with federal HIPAA regulations. HUHS workforce members work in one of the HUHS departments or care sites as faculty, staff, employees, volunteers, contractors, students, or trainees. Additional groups of employees included in these annual trainings work in departments with business services supporting the HUHS HIPAA covered healthcare components at Howard (e.g. ETS, HR, Finance, Public Safety, General Counsel, etc.). We ask everyone to complete their trainings to support the goal of 100% completion each year. |
| HIPAA Compliance |
All members of the workforce are to be trained with respect to the handling of protected health information as necessary and appropriate for the members of the workforce to carry out their functions within the covered entity |
| Title IX |
The Title IX Office facilitates training sessions for students (undergraduate, graduate, and professional), faculty, and staff groups in the University’s Title IX Policy and Procedures, including during annual, biannual, and bi-weekly University and HU Hospital orientations; as well as by request in the areas of discrimination, harassment, sexual assault, and healthy relationships. |
| FERPA |
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that affords a third party the right to access their children’s education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from the education records. When a student turns 18 years old, or enters a postsecondary institution at any age, the rights under FERPA transfer from the parents to the student. |