NEW YORK, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- HIPAA has been a best practices driver for NYU Medical Center, according to their Chief Information Security Officer, Hai Ngo. "It has helped us achieve best practices across IT and stay ahead of other regulations such as JCAHO and SOX."
If only all healthcare professionals had his attitude and business strategies. The NYU Medical center is part of a "23% minority of healthcare organizations that are fully compliant today," (source: American Health Information Management Association).
Integrating new security and compliance standards into a long-established system, which prioritizes patient-care, is a complex and challenging task for many in the healthcare industry. For this reason the Strategic Research Institute assembled a group of healthcare experts who will discuss just that, how to deploy effective security strategies that can safeguard data without undermining the organization's commitment to healthcare urgency and data integrity:
HIPAA Compliance 2005: New Strategies That Safeguard Data November 14-15, 2005 Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Nashville, Tennessee
It is designed to meet the industry's evolving business needs, in the New Era of HIPAA. The focus of the conference will be on how to integrate security and compliance into the overall business strategy, and safely across the enterprise.
Agenda highlights include: Mark M. Johnson, Chief Information Security Officer for Vanderbilt University and Medical Center, covering the issue of "Adding Security to Your Healthcare Equation."; and Paul Connelly, Vice President and Chef Information Security Officer from the Hospital Corporation of America, discussing how they balance the needs of various data users within their organization and ways for measuring effectiveness. The agenda will be optimized with James F. Tomsheck, Deputy Assistant Director, Office of Investigations, United States Security Service, delivering a session on identity theft and other crimes in which thieves obtain health information for financial or personal gain.
* COMPLETE AGENDA AND REGISTRATION:
Healthcare professionals from hospitals qualify for a registration rate of $895 (subject to approval.) For more information, please contact Karin Wessely-Bechor at 212-967-0095 ext. 224 or kbechor@srinstitute.com.
Go Online: www.srinstitute.com/CF320 Call: 800-599-4950 / 212-967-0095 Fax: 212-967-8021 E-mail: mailto:info@srinstitute.com * Please mention priority code DPR001326 when registering.
Strategic Research InstituteCONTACT: Karin Wessely-Bechor, Vice President, Strategic ResearchInstitute, +1-212-967-0095 ext. 224, kbechor@srinstitute.com
