Mentorhealth To Organize Webinar On "Hipaa/hitech Assessment Of Your Cloud Service Providers"
"HIPAA/HITECH Assessment of your Cloud Service Providers" is the topic of a webinar that MentorHealth, a leading provider of continuing professional education for the healthcare industry, is organizing on October 2. Keith Mattox, who is a Senior Consultant at Clinical Security, LLC, will be the speaker at this webinar.
- (1888PressRelease) September 27, 2013 - As more and more healthcare organizations move over to cloud computing for a variety of functions; there is concern over the grey areas of this system. Safety and security of systems and protection of data safety are of utmost concern. This is all the more so in this age of strict regulation in this area and the emergence of protocols and regulations on safety of data.
This webinar will highlight the strengths and pitfalls of using the cloud for healthcare data systems. The speaker will explore some of the vulnerabilities and concerns of cloud computing on electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI), which have to comply with HIPAA/HITECH standards.
This session will examine how to deal with external sources for these Electronic Health Records (EHR's). It will also look into the human, natural and environmental threats to information systems that contain ePHI. The speaker will also help participants make a risk analysis for compliance with these standards.
The following areas will be covered during this session:
- How to inventory ePHI, map out cloud systems in scope, identify and prioritize vendor evaluation, assessment and monitoring
- The best practices and checklist to minimize time and maximize effectiveness
- Learn about practical tools and resources for conducting and documenting assessment
- The most common threats and vulnerabilities to ePHI introduced by the cloud service providers - and how to protect Covered Entity's interest
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When: October 2, 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
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By whom:
Keith Mattox is a Senior Consultant at Clinical Security, LLC. Mr. Mattox has ten years' experience as a consultant providing information security and compliance solutions. As a program manager with 25 years of IT experience, he has led the development and implementation of information security and compliance programs for financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies and healthcare organizations.
Mr. Mattox most recently served as a security consultant for a de novo internet bank and as the interim CISO for a large county hospital system. He is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Mattox is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP.
Mr. Mattox is affiliated the Project Management Institute, the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium ((ISC) 2), the Information System Security Association (ISSA), Information Systems Auditing and Control Association (ISACA), and Infragard.
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Who will benefit:
This webinar will benefit
- Healthcare Compliance
- Security and Privacy Professional
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Duration: 60 minutes
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To enroll for this webinar, contact
webinars ( @ ) mentorhealth dot com
Ph: 800-385-1607
Fax: 302-288-6884
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