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Required HIPAA Privacy Rule training launched on Web by Mike Wheeler University Privacy Officer The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Privacy Rule is scheduled for implementation on April 14.  This Privacy Rule requires each of our employees, with access to Protected Health Information, to complete mandatory privacy training.  Protected Health Information is defined as information that identifies an individual and relates to past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition. This includes the provision of health care or the past, present, or future billing information for the provision of health care.  MUSC, Medical University Hospital Authority, University Medical Associates, and Carolina Family Care is using a Web-based training package to accomplish this HIPAA Privacy Rule training requirement.  This training package can be found at http://www.musc.edu/hipaa or a link to this site can be found at the MUSC library’s Web site http://www.library.musc.edu. The first page of this Web-based training package asks for you to determinate if you use Protected Health Information during the performance of your job. This first page consists of a series of 10 questions to aid in this determination.  If you use Protected Health Information, you must complete the training and a short registration form. All Medical University Hospital Authority and University Medical Associates employees are required to complete the training package regardless of whether they use Protected Health Information or not.  Please note that if you attend one of the “live” training sessions, you do not have to complete this Web-  based training.  If you do not use Protected Health Information, you will not complete the training, but you will be asked to complete a short registration form to verify that you do not use protected health information. You are asked to complete this privacy rule training or verify that you do not use Protected Health Information before April 1. If you should have any questions, contact Mike Wheeler at 789-6670,  Sharon Knowles at 792-4037, or Julie Acker at 876-1321.   Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.