Welcome to the North Dakota Pharmacists Association Online Education portal

NDPhA has carefully chosen a variety of courses that meet the needs of its professional membership. Subject areas include: Preventing Fraud, Waste and Abuse, HIPAA Privacy and Security, Pharmacy Technician Certification, Methamphetamine training and more. A few course descriptions are listed below.

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Preventing Fraud, Waste and Abuse Training Program

As part of the Medicare Part D - Prescription Drug Benefit, CMS released final guidance in April 2006 for compliance guidance to all Medicare Part D Sponsors titled "CMS Prescription Drug Benefit Manual, Chapter 9 - Part D Program to Control Fraud, Waste and Abuse". Section 50.2.3 of the Manual dictates that all Sponsors and their "downstream entities", which include pharmacists and pharmacy workforce members engaged in delivering any Medicare services, receive general and specialized training to prevent fraud, waste and abuse. As of December 31, 2009 and annually thereafter, all pharmacists and pharmacy staff are required to have completed training.Click here for more information.

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HIPAA Privacy Training for the Pharmacy Workplace

Coming in contact with and processing personal health information (PHI) is a routine part of the pharmacy associate’s job. Ensuring that a patient’s privacy is not violated is mandated by Federal (and sometimes State) law and there are penalties for failing to protect personal health information. This course answers you questions while providing an overview of the HIPAA Privacy laws and the patient rights it was written to protect. It is required training for all members of the workforce with access to protected health information.

HIPAA Security Basics Training for the Pharmacy Workplace

Protecting electronic personal health information (e-PHI) is mandated for pharmacists and technicians. Your company develops and implements many procedures to protect e-PHI and many of those take place “behind the scenes”. Pharmacists and technicians ensure the successful implementation of security measures by following store policies and procedures related to HIPAA security. This course review administrative, physical, and technical safeguards mandated by the HIPAA Security requirements; describes required policies and procedures; and introduces basic concepts of information security.

Compliance Shield for the Pharmacy Workplace

Staying compliant with the many regulatory training requirements is time consuming and costly. The Compliance Shield for the Pharmacy Workplace is a subscription based e-learning service that saves you money because you pay an annual fee that saves you significant money over paying for the courses individually. The program gives access to the courses below for up to 10 current employees and up to an additional 3 employees over the ensuing twelve months. Coursed included in the package are:

• Fraud, Waste and Abuse (required training)
• HIPAA Privacy (required training)
• HIPAA Security (required training)
• MethGuard™ (required training)
• Bloodborne Pathogens for the Pharmacy (OSHA)
• eRX PDX Prescription Processing and Auto e-Script (Bonus Course)

Dollar savings and state of the art tracking capabilities make this a simple and secure solution to meeting regulatory training requirements. For more information, contact Jim McDowell at LearnSomething at (850) 321-3293 or jmcdowell@learnsomething.com or call the main office at (850) 385-7915.