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Using COBIT to Manage Sentinel Events |
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Assessing Individualized Harm for HITECH Breach Notfication Decisions |
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Healthcare IT Balanced Scorecard |
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Extended Risk Management for Health IT |
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Webcast Descriptions
Using COBIT To Manage Sentinel Events
The Joint Commission requires healthcare provides to have a plan to identify and respond to sentinel events which are process errors that result in the potential for or actual death or serious bodily injury to patients. With the proliferation of EMRs, many patient care processes are being administered and monitored electronically. COBIT or Control Objectives for Information Technology was developed to provide a govenance structure for process owners. It is particularly suitable to helping EMR and IT support owners deal with process risks in an EMR system.
This free informational webcast will:
- Summarize the Joint Commission Sentienel Event movitation and requirements;
- Describe the COBIT Framework; and
- Discuss how COBIT can be used to identify and reduce process errors associated with EMR system operations.
Who Should Attend
Patient care managers; EMR process owners; IT staff; Privacy and security officers; healthcare risk managers; compliance officers and other organizational executives.
Assessing Individualized Harm for HITECH Breach Notification Decisions
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, requires heatlhcare organizations to notify individuals of all breaches of their personal health information that the organization has determined poses a significant risk of harm to the individual. To make such a determination, healthcare organization are now required to assess risks from the patient's perspective.
This free informational webcast will:
- Describe the new risk assessment requirements
- Discuss how a Breach Notification risk assessment differs from the HIPAA Security Rule assessment
- Provide model approaches to conducting the Breach Notification risk assessment
Who Should Attend
Privacy and security officers; compliance officers and other organizational executives; consultants; attorneys; and healthcare risk managers.