Risk Analysis Without Fear: Satisfying HIPAA & Meaningful Use Requirements for Privacy and Security 2011

This session will present the background of the regulations and standards that call for information security risk analysis and show how it fits in to an overall information security management process. The risk analysis process will be presented within the context of the overall risk prioritization and risk mitigation process, using an example carried through the discussion.

The Information Security Risk Analysis Process presented utilizes a non-technical approach, involving interviewing staff knowledgeable about operations and systems to discover how information is retained and moved, and reveal the risks inherent in such storage and transmission. Areas of high risk, as identified by respected industry organizations, will be identified to ensure that the most significant risks are discovered and adequately prioritized.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to conduct an information security risk analysis suitable to aid in compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule and other information security regulations relevant to health information managers
• Find out what the rules are that health care providers must follow, why they are important, and what the penalties are for not complying, including the new penalties for willful neglect of compliance, which begins at $10,000
• See how the risk analysis requirement for meeting the privacy and security objective of meaningful use, necessary for federal funding, fits in with HIPAA compliance.
• Learn what steps to follow in the discovery and organization of information needed for the risk analysis.
• Find out what are the most significant risks a health care organization faces and how they can be mitigated.
• Learn a methodology for working through the risk analysis information to discover security strengths and weaknesses and develop a list of priorities for improving security compliance.