This session was originally aired on 03/26/09  

You don't have to be a tech-wizard: Protect yourself from security breaches and costly lawsuits with this easy-to-follow guide.

Have you conducted a thorough and detailed risk assessment?

Health information security isn’t just for IT experts anymore -- it’s up to health information managers to stay compliant with HIPAA’s security rule, the payment card industry's Data Security Standard, and other state regulations and contractual agreements.

Let compliance and technology expert Jim Sheldon-Dean be your guide during this 60-minute session as he shows you a non-technical method for conducting your own risk analysis using publicly available tools and resources.

Topics covered:

• The biggest information security issues today -- and health information's role in maintaining compliance.
• What's hanging people up over HIPAA security and PCI payment card security requirements.
• The information security risk analysis process: From interviews to risk determination, here's what you need to know.
• Best practices to discover your practice’s strengths and weaknesses. Develop a custom tailored list of priorities.
• How to use a risk analysis to guide your decision making for future policies, procedures, and security investments.

Who should attend? Information security officers, risk managers, compliance officers, privacy officers, health information managers, information technology managers, medical office managers, chief financial officers, systems managers, legal counsel and operations directors.

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Jim Sheldon-Dean is the founder and director of compliance services at Lewis Creek Systems, LLC, a Vermont-based consulting firm founded in 1982, providing information privacy and security regulatory compliance services to health care firms and businesses throughout the Northeast and nationally. Sheldon-Dean’s firm provides a variety of advisory, training, assessment, policy development, project management and mitigation services for a number of health care providers, businesses, universities, small and large hospitals, urban and rural mental health and social service agencies, health insurance plans and health care business associates.  He serves on the HIMSS Information Systems Security Workgroup, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Privacy and Security Workgroup, and co-chairs the WEDI HIPAA Updates sub-workgroup.  Sheldon-Dean is a participating member of the advisory board of Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL), and has participated in VITL’s Vermont Health Information Technology Plan working group, VITL’s Physician EMR adoption project, and the Security Workgroup of the New Hampshire/Vermont Strategic HIPAA Implementation Plan (NHVSHIP).  He is a frequent speaker regarding HIPAA and information privacy and security compliance issues at seminars and conferences, including speaking engagements at AHIMA national conventions and WEDI national conferences, and before the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Health Information Management Associations of New York City, New York State, and Vermont, the Connecticut Hospital Association, and the Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania.

Sheldon-Dean has over 25 years of experience in policy analysis and implementation, business process analysis, information systems and software development.  His experience includes leading the development of health care related Web sites; award-winning, best-selling commercial utility software; and mission-critical, fault-tolerant communications satellite control systems.  In addition, he has eight years of experience doing hands-on medical work as a Vermont certified volunteer emergency medical technician.  Sheldon-Dean received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Vermont and his master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.