CHIMA’s Emerging Privacy Management Practices in Health Care series

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Meghan in Blog

Emerging Privacy Management Practices in Health Care

I'm tickled pink to be the facilitator for CHIMA's new continuing education series.

The Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA) recently launched a live, 5-part privacy series, Emerging Privacy Management Practices in Health Care, beginning on August 6, 2020.

Telehealth and virtual care implementation has advanced 10 years in the last 3 months in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This series covers the critical aspects of implementing modern privacy management practices in your health care organization. This series is suitable for individuals with privacy-related roles (e.g., managers, vendors, or employees) across the continuum of health care (e.g., acute, primary, long-term or community care).

Each module will cover a privacy-related topic area including privacy awareness, release of information (ROI), access and disclosure, security/cybersecurity, and breach management. Environment overviews are shared throughout the series along with new opportunities for health information professionals in both traditional and emerging roles. By keeping current with these trends, health information professionals will be better prepared to assume new roles within privacy management.

Attend the live webinars to participate in a Q&A period with series facilitator and industry expert Jean L. Eaton.

Learn more at echima.ca/privacy-series

Speakers:

Jean L. Eaton, Your Practical Privacy Coach and Practice Management Mentor with Information Managers Ltd.

Jean L. Eaton is a Certified Health Information Management (CHIM) professional, and privacy awareness training facilitator.

She has had the honour of sharing her passion for practical privacy and confidentiality advice with hundreds of medical clinics, health care practices, and organizations across Canada and the United States.

Jean has over 20 years of experience in health information management and health care administration and over 15 years in her independent privacy consulting practice. She makes practical recommendations for thousands of independent health care providers to help them comply with privacy legislation and create efficient practices.

Jean is also a keynote speaker on the topic of privacy breach management and serves as an on-demand ‘virtual privacy officer’.

The live webinars will occur on the first Thursday of each month from August to December.

Module	Date	Time
1. Privacy awareness	August 6, 2020	12:00 – 1:30 pm EST
2. Release of information	September 3, 2020	12:00 – 1:30 pm EST
3. Access and disclosure in patient portals, information sharing, and health information exchange environment	October 1, 2020	12:00 – 1:30 pm EST
4. Security/cybersecurity	November 5, 2020	12:00 – 1:30 pm EST
5. Privacy breach management	December 3, 2020	12:00 – 1:30 pm EST

Purchase Your Series Pass Here!

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Meeting Leadership Podcast – Why Leaders Should Understand Privacy

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Jean Eaton in Blog

I'm tickled pink to be a guest on the 5 minute podcast with Gord Sheppard!

Meeting Leadership Podcast – Learn How To Become An Outstanding Leader Who Runs Highly Effective Meetings

On the podcast, we talked about What Leaders Need To Know To Start a Privacy Program.

Here’s a summary of our discussion.

Train Your Team About Privacy And Security

You must train your team about privacy and security in your practices.

Let me use an example. A business in Alberta had a privacy program in place in 2013. In 2018 they experienced a privacy breach where an employee was snooping and got caught. When the Commissioner's office did the investigation, nobody in that practice, nobody in that business could find the policies and procedures that they had in place in 2013. The staff told the investigator that they hadn't received any training since that time. (See the article, “Do You Know Where Your Policies Are?”)

We need to make sure that we're providing privacy and security training on a regular basis, not just on orientation. You need to keep privacy and security top of mind.

Privacy Is An Investment That Will Save You Money

Privacy awareness training and proper policies and procedures is an investment and it is part of your operating costs. It will also save you time and money by avoiding re-work and re-training. When you have good policies and procedures in place and you're making the right decisions, you're avoiding all sorts of other costs about fines, a bad reputation, poor customer service. When you build that into your practice, you're going to reap the rewards about having an efficient practice and making sure that you're meeting all those requirements.

The Benefits Of Naming a Privacy Officer

Every business needs to have a privacy officer in your organization. This is somebody that you have assigned with the responsibility to make sure that there's a privacy management program in place. Now, not all privacy officers need to know everything. They do need to know those important questions and they need to know how to make it practical for your business.

Stay tuned for an announcement about the new course, The Practical Privacy Officer starting in September.

When You Understand Privacy, You Make Better Business Decisions!

When you have good privacy practices in your business, you will make sure to also select the best vendors who can work with you that also demonstrate their knowledge and support about privacy practices. You can build privacy practices into your business contracts and your agreements. This will also help you to grow your business reputation and attract better business partners and business suppliers and better clients and customers for your organization.

I've put together a checklist for you about the 10 Key Steps To Prevent A Privacy Breach.

Download the checklist and make sure that you implement these best practices in your business.

Meeting Leadership Podcast

Learn How To Become An Outstanding Leader Who Runs Highly Effective Meetings – Daily Episodes – in just 5 minutes!

Poor communication is bad for business. At Meeting Leadership Inc. we take a unique approach to helping you learn how to communicate more effectively. First we help you turn your meetings into highly productive events that drive your organization strategy. Then we empower you with the ability to use online education to tell your story to the most important people in your world.

Check out the Meeting Leadership Podcast here!

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Meeting Leadership Podcast – Why Leaders Should Understand Privacy

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Jean Eaton in Blog

I'm tickled pink to be a guest on the 5 minute podcast with Gord Sheppard!

Meeting Leadership Podcast – Learn How To Become An Outstanding Leader Who Runs Highly Effective Meetings

On the podcast, we talked about Why Leaders Should Understand Privacy.

Here’s a summary of our discussion.

Privacy is Good For Business!

Privacy applies to every leader in every business. We each have personal information in our businesses. It might be information about our employees, our volunteers, or our directors. It might be information about clients and customers, our business partners, and our business suppliers. We each have sensitive information about our business.

When leaders understand privacy, you have privacy practices in place including good written policies and procedures about how you will collect, use, and disclose personal information you will be able to make sure that you are meeting regulatory compliance. Written policies and procedures makes it easy to consistently onboard employees and volunteers in a consistent way to confidently and properly manage personal information in your business.

Avoid Fines, Penalties, Charges, Time-Sucking Notification Process and Even Jail!

When you have written policies and procedures in place and you provide privacy awareness training to your staff, you can avoid fines, penalties, charges, and time sucking notification process and even jail time!

We've seen recently in the Desjardins data breach in July 2019 where an employee–somebody that was trusted within that organization—who had access to client banking and financial information improperly used that information for their financial gain. This included access to client’s name, address, date of birth, and the social insurance number and other really sensitive financial information. Apparently, because this employee wasn't happy with where they worked, they shared sensitive personal information inappropriately. This breach has affected tens of thousands of clients and individuals in Canada and it's being talked about in emergency session of parliament.

This is an absolute financial disaster for any large business because you know immediately just the marketing goodwill impact alone it takes what a million years to build up your business in an hour to tear it down in this kind of thing.

But maybe it's even more important for the smaller business. That one privacy breach is going to have a huge impact the amount of time and reputation of your business. If you also receive a fine of, say, $200,000, well I don't know many small businesses that can absorb that in a business financial cycle.

When You Understand Privacy, You Make Better Business Decisions!

I've put together a checklist for you about the 10 key steps to prevent a privacy breach.

Download the checklist and make sure that you implement these best practices in your business.

Meeting Leadership Podcast

Learn How To Become An Outstanding Leader Who Runs Highly Effective Meetings – Daily Episodes – in just 5 minutes!

Check out the Meeting Leadership Podcast here!

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