Privacy and Security Training Update

​DBH employees were recently required to complete the HS -Privacy and Security Training – 2022 through the PERC website. Two of the instructions in the training differ from the annually required DBH HIPAA, Privacy, and Security Training in Relias; specifically:

How to Encrypt Email
• DBH employees DO NOT use Encrypted Email from the County of San Bernardino, on the Subject Line of the email.  DBH employees MUST enter PHI: or phi: on the Subject Line of the email to activate encryption.

Breach Reporting Process
• DBH employees reporting process is in accordance with COM0944 Privacy Incident Policy, DBH staff reporting a privacy incident shall:

• Immediately notify their supervisor;
• Report any privacy/security incident immediately, but not later than the day discovered to the DBH Office of Compliance privacy incident inbox at DBH-PrivacyIncidents@dbh.sbcounty.gov, and
• Submit the auto generated DBH Privacy and Security Incident Reporting Form (COM042) back to DBH-PrivacyIncidents@dbh.sbcounty.gov.

When instructions provided in an HS training and a DBH training are different, DBH employees will follow the DBH training instructions and/or DBH-specific policy/procedure.

Please contact the Office of Compliance at (909) 388-0879 with questions or concerns.