Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS), the leading provider of online healthcare compliance and competency training, today announced the release of a newly updated online multimedia HIPAA compliance training course.

HCCS' online compliance training courses are designed to help healthcare institutions provide recurring updated training in an effort to change staff behavior and maintain compliance with changing regulations. HCCS addresses these issues and many others in customizable, easy to understand online courses that are updated annually, and as regulations change.

HCCS has updated the courses with new videos, scenarios and interactive exercises to engage learners and improve information retention.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) includes the HITECH Act, which brings ongoing changes to HIPAA regulations through the year 2014. Healthcare institutions are facing a myriad of changing regulations with various deadlines for compliance, making it very difficult for compliance departments to keep content current and up to date with staff training. It can be costly and time consuming for organizations to monitor and research the changes, and then incorporate them into staff training.

"Compliance with HIPAA regulations is of paramount importance now with all of the changes in regulations stemming from the HITECH Act," says Ben Diamond, President of HCCS. "A lapse in compliance training can bring government intervention, large fines and unwanted media attention. By providing automatic content updates for staff education, we are able to help organizations focus on their primary mission of patient care."

Content updates to the HCCS HIPAA online training course include:

• HITECH information regarding Business Associates
• Stimulus Act summary and it's relation to the Privacy Rule
• Identity theft, medical identity theft, and Identity Theft Red Flags Rule
• New CMS compliance guidance on remote access to ePHI
• and many other topics

The updated HIPAA Compliance online training course is available now.

About HCCS

Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS) provides up-to-date compliance and competency training courseware and learning systems to hospitals, health plans, teaching facilities, medical schools and other healthcare entities.  HCCS programs are used at hundreds of healthcare facilities nationwide, with over one million registered learners.  HCCS provides a full library of over one thousand online courses to fulfill the demanding needs of healthcare staff training.  The HCCS Healthcare Learning Platform (HLP) is a learning management system and healthcare talent management suite.

For more information about HCCS compliance training courses or the HCCS Healthcare Learning Platform^TM, contact HCCS at (877) 933-4227, by email at info@hccs.com, or via the web at www.hccs.com.