How ISO/IEC 27001 can help achieve HIPAA Compliance or Manager Primer for Ensuring Information Security and Privacy of EHRs

• OVERVIEW

The government enforced healthcare mandates continuously intersect with organizational formations to ensure appropriate goods or services delivered. Signed into law in 1996 by former United States President William J. Clinton, the overall purpose of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) includes improving health insurance coverage, simplifying healthcare administration, reducing the occurrences of fraudulent misuse, waste, and abuse of information. Moreover, HIPAA addressed facilitating smooth access to health saving accounts and long-term care services. Although HIPAA does not mandate certification, ISO/IEC 27001 is a powerful way to demonstrate appropriate information security and privacy with necessary accountability and compliance.Using an information security management system (ISMS) configuration can assist organizations, no matter the size, sector, or regulatory environment; in taking a systematic risk-based approach to managing and securing sensitive company data. By implementing ISO/IEC 27001, your organization is deploying an ISMS that enables support by top leadership, organizational culture and strategy integration, with constant monitoring, updating, and review capabilities. Additionally, your organization will be able to ensure that the ISMS adapts to changes in both in the external and internal healthcare environment as well as identify and reduce risks through using a process of continual improvement.

• LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• An overview of HIPAA
• How an ISO/IEC 27001-aligned ISMS can support HIPAA compliance
• The primary risks associated with data breaches and critical actions in the event of a data breach
• The technical and organizational requirements to achieve HIPAA compliance
• The benefits of implementing an ISMS
• Practical advice on how to improve your ISMS deployment congruent with HIPAA requirements

• WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND

Although many healthcare organizations understand the importance of instituting the right procedures to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements, not many are aware of the benefits of implementing ISO/IEC 27001 standards compliant with an ISMS deployment. The deployment of ISO/IEC 27001 permits achieving the technical and operational requirements necessary to assist in preventing a data breach under HIPAA. In this webinar, information systems management expert Dr. Robert E. Davis, CISA, CICA will walk you through how to implement an effective ISMS configuration that can help you towards compliance with HIPAA regulations.

• AREAS COVERED

• The purpose of HIPAA
• Consequences of data breaches
• The reach of HIPAA
• How ISO/IEC 27001 can help with HIPAA compliance
• How to map ISO/IEC 27001 to HIPAA requirements
• ISO/IEC 27001 implementation considerations

• WHO WILL BENEFIT?

• Chief Information Security Officers
• Information Security Directors
• Data governance and management professionals
• Staff attorneys
• Privacy and compliance professionals
• Human resources professionals
• Risk management professionals and auditors tasked with compliance and risk transfer
• Data Protection Officers
• Chief Information Officers/Chief Technology Officers
• Internal Audit Managers and staff
• Information Technology Security Officers 
• Information Technology and Data Consultants, as well as project managers involved in data protection, information security, or cybersecurity issues.