3 Games to Make HIPAA Training More Fun

For many of us, the word “HIPAA” can inspire a yawn.

While HIPAA isn’t necessarily the most exciting subject, it’s an incredibly important one for anyone in the healthcare industry. Plus, HIPAA training is a requirement for any individuals handling protected health information (PHI).

But training doesn’t have to be boring. Our friends at Secureframe have created three fun HIPAA training games to ensure your team is well-versed in all things HIPAA.

Game 1: HIPAA Family Feud

Test your employee’s HIPAA knowledge with a fun game of HIPAA Family Feud.

Here’s how to play:

1. Divide the group into two teams.
2. Ask a trivia question related to HIPAA.
3. Give each group time to convene about the correct answer. For example: “When was HIPAA enacted?”
4. Have each team write down their answer for an opportunity to earn a point reward.
5. If they’re right they get a point, but if they’re wrong the other team gets a chance to steal the point by answering correctly.
6. Whichever team accumulates the most points wins.

Use these printable HIPAA Family Feud cards to enhance the gameplay experience and quiz your team members.

Game 2: HIPAA Jeopardy!

First, list six different HIPAA-oriented categories in a slideshow presentation, like this:

The questions with lower values should be the easiest to answer. The highest value questions should be the hardest.

• Divide your employees into teams and let them pick questions.
• Once they’ve selected a category and value, reveal the question.
• The first team to raise their hands will then answer the question. If correct, they are awarded the value associated with the question. If incorrect, the team loses the value.
• The team with the most “money” at the end wins.

Game 3: Match the HIPAA Standard

Each HIPAA provision contains a series of standards. For example, the Privacy Rule contains the Minimum Necessary standard, which requires covered entities to use as little PHI as possible to accomplish a given treatment, payment, or health care operation task.

This memory-like game will challenge your team to match the standard cards with their definition.

1. Write down HIPAA standards on individual cards.  Label the back of each card “Standard.”.
2. Write down the definition of each standard on separate cards. Label the back of each card “Definition.”
3. Split your training group into two teams.
4. Shuffle the cards and deal an equal number of standards and their definition cards face down to each team.
5. Each player turns over one standard card and one definition card.
6. Individuals will take turns trying to match a standard card with the right definition card to earn a point for their team.
7. If someone makes an incorrect match, they must flip the cards back over, and their turn ends.
8. The first team to earn 10 points wins.

Additional Resources

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