360 Degree Approach to Health Information Privacy

Why Should You Attend:

This webinar will provide an overview of current events on privacy issues with a focus on information technology challenges and a focus on the human side of managing HIPAA Privacy. The program will step through a high level outline of HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules to ground the context for designing “Good Practices” in compliance.

We will review case studies/ examples to benchmark your compliance program for lessons learned and what to avoid going forward.

The presenter will show how you can develop a risk-based assessment of your program and identify opportunities for enhancing it. It will include the creation of a framework for thinking about Health Information whether it is in transit or static and how to evaluate existing controls to protect this data.

The training will conclude with a Communications and Awareness primer to lay the groundwork for success.

Learning Objectives:

Learning Objectives will include:

• Good Practices for Health Information Privacy
• Risk-based approach to evaluate existing program maturity
• Communications and Awareness programs that work

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• Overview of current privacy issues and challenges.
• Outline of HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.
• Designing “Good Practices” in HIPAA compliance.
• Risk-based assessment of HIPAA privacy program.
• Developing cost-effective communications and awareness programs.

Who Will Benefit:

If you receive, store, process or transmit ePHI, you should attend this webinar. Those that would benefit most would be:

• Business leaders and managers with responsibility for Risk Management
• Corporate Compliance, and HIPAA-HITECH Privacy and Security compliance personnel CEOs, COOs and CFOs
• Chief Compliance Officers and Chief Risk Officers
• Chief Privacy Officers, Chief Security Officers and Chief Information Officers

All Risk and Compliance professionals in Healthcare and Healthcare IT professionals will benefit from this training.

Instructor Profile:

James Bone , is the founder of Global Compliance Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that specialized in operational risk management, compliance internal controls, risk frameworks, and information technology risk management best practices. James is a contributing writer for Compliance Week, Corporate Compliance Insights, and contributes to publications specializing in Governance, Risk, & Compliance. James has over 20+ years experience in financial services with firms such as Merrill Lynch and Fidelity Investments.

Topic Background:

Given the current events with Sony and President Obama's new initiatives on Cyber Security a refocus on protecting confidential information is more important than ever before. Likewise, healthcare providers continue to deploy new technologies to improve efficiency and cut costs the need to stay current on IT and human assets are increasingly more challenging.

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