Health Care Privacy Panel Addresses Information Assurance

The First Annual Health Privacy Summit will take place on November 30, 2011 and is hosted by Medtronic at their Minneapolis headquarters. Chad Boeckmann, President of Secure Digital Solutions will host a special panel discussion addressing Protected Health Information (PHI) Incident Management with Business Associate Agreements. Mr. Boeckmann will facilitate the discussion with an organization responsible for vendor assurance.

 

The panel will address business cases in which the Business Associate (BA) is not well informed or equipped to detect data breach incidents, is reluctant to harm the relationship, or conducts a disagreeable risk assessment. The discussion will seek to identify a collaborative reporting model that yields positive results.

 

According to a report by Ponemon Institute titled “True Cost of Compliance” the health care industry loses an average of 43,869 records over a 12 month period. Comparing health care to other industries such as the financial industry at an average 21,776 records lost or stolen and technology at 71,737 records lost or stolen, health care industry appears to be average in terms of records lost or stolen in a 12 month period.

 

“Over ten percent of data breaches reported in the past five years have involved a health care service provider. Under HITECH regulations, business associates now must comply with the HIPAA Security Rule and report these incidents to their covered entities. But are they doing this? We need to create better processes to manage and report incidents,” says Mr. Boeckmann.

 

Secure Digital Solutions is a Minnesota-based information security and compliance management firm. With a focus on building efficiencies through expert knowledge, SDS delivers information security, privacy and compliance management services.

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