How to Perform a HIPAA Risk Assessment

Why Should You Attend:

This webinar will discuss three reasons why a risk assessment is necessary:

• First, both the HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations require a Risk Assessment for the organization to be HIPAA compliant.
• Second, as a result of the Risk Assessment the organization knows where it needs to address its efforts to minimize its risk.
• Third, if a breach should occur, a Risk Assessment is a demonstration that the health care organization has used reasonable diligence and either eliminate fines or keep them to a minimum.

This topic addresses the key components of a risk assessment and how to perform the risk assessment. This includes how to define the specific risks, how to know, how to assess the likelihood and impact of the risk and the final determination on the level of severity of the risk for the organization.

Finally, the session explains how to interpret the results of the risk assessment, how to use the results of the risk assessment for preparing the health care organization’s policies and procedures and how to conduct the HIPAA training for its staff.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Why the risk assessment is important to the health care organization and business associates?
• What is important to consider in doing a risk assessment?
• How to do a risk assessment?
• When to look for outside assistance?
• How to link your assessment to your training responsibilities?
• How to interpret the results of the risk assessment?
• What to do with the results of your assessment?

Who Will Benefit:

• Anyone involves with HIPAA Compliance
• Health Care Organization Ownership
• Office Management
• Dentists
• Physicians
• Clinics and Hospitals
• Business Associates
• Health Care IT Professionals

James B Wener
HIPAA Professional, Business Systems Consulting, LLC

Jim Wener has over 40 years of experience in assisting health care organizations – both providers and payers - identify their automation requirements and helping these organizations select and successfully implement the automation most applicable for their needs. Since 1996, he has been an active lecturer, trainer and HIPAA assessment consultant assisting a variety of health care providers (hospitals, payers, clinics and individual physician practitioners) become HIPAA compliant. He developed the IBM HIPAA assessment and training products for their consulting practice. Mr. Wener is a certified HIPAA consultant and has authored articles regarding various topics on the subject. His HIPAA consulting practice offers comprehensive HIPAA privacy and security consulting tools, practice walkthrough assessment tools, a full set of HIPAA privacy and security policy and procedures templates, training presentations and a breach mitigation tool – all geared and used by small and large health care organizations.

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