Table-Top Privacy Breach Fire Drill Workshops

Are You Ready for a Privacy Breach?

We know the most common types of privacy breaches. Do you have a written playbook with step-by-step instructions on how to respond to a privacy breach? Have you rehearsed this with your team?

Why Is A Privacy Breach Significant?

Did you know that in Canada, healthcare organizations are increasingly vulnerable to privacy breaches? According to recent statistics,

• Costs* of Breach has increased to about $180 per record containing personally identifiable information. If you had 4 physicians in a practice, and all of their patient records were compromised, you might be looking at a cost of $1.44 M.
• 53%** of data breaches are caused by malicious insiders.
• Privacy legislation includes fines and jail time for malicious privacy breaches.
• Healthcare entities have experienced a 53% increase in data breach costs since 2020.
• Organizations that have identified a privacy officer and an incident response plan reduced the cost of a privacy breach and often avoided breaches altogether.

Breaches not only compromise patient trust but also result in significant financial and reputational damage to the affected practices.

Do you remember your school days when every month or two you had a fire drill? The fire alarm would go off and everybody would go out the doors and very calmly go down the stairs and out the doors and into their muster point.

We take the same approach with privacy breach fire drills. Fires can happen at different times, places, and for different reasons. When you change the scenario, you develop alternate strategies or playbooks to best respond to the fire.

A privacy breach incident playbook contains all the actionable steps to take when a privacy beach incident occurs. Your playbook will have many ‘plays’ or actions to take when different types of privacy breach incidents occur.

You could also think of it as a recipe book. You have many types of recipes to select from. Identify the ingredients that you have on hand (or the characteristics of the latest privacy incident) and select the most appropriate recipe to resolve the incident.

In-person workshop coming to a location near you!

This in-person workshop is designed to equip you with essential skills and strategies to effectively respond to privacy breaches and security incidents within your organization. By participating, you’ll have the chance to:

• Engage in hands-on exercises and simulations of common privacy breach scenarios.
• Develop and refine your incident response plan in a collaborative environment.
• Gain practical insights and actionable tips to safeguard patient data and maintain compliance.

This practical in-person interactive workshop is available for $250 + GST

This in-person workshop has limited seating – register right away to reserve your spot!

Here’s what I’ve got for you:

​In this 3-hour in-person interactive workshop, you will participate in a Table-Top Privacy Breach Fire Drill to better prepared to respond to a privacy breach in your practice. This includes:

• Introduction to the 4 Step Response Plan.
• Understanding spotting privacy breach, privacy breach notification triggers under HIA and PIPA.
• Template privacy breach incident response form, media statements, employee sanctions, patient notification letters, and more!
• Guidance to have difficult conversations with employee.

At the conclusion of this fire-drill, your team is ready, energized, and have the tools that they need to make sure that they can respond to that privacy and security breach as quickly as possible.

Workshop Outline

• Who Cares About A Privacy or Security Incident?
• 4 Step Response Plan
• Table Top Fire Drill Demonstration with Guest – Accurate Networks
• Interactive role play on real-life scenarios of privacy and security breach offences that demonstrate what can go wrong – and what you should do instead.
  • Practical Fire Drill Scenario #1
  • Practical Fire Drill Scenario #2
  • Practical Fire Drill Scenario #3 with Guest – Kathy Archer

Privacy Breach Playbook

Templates to help you in your practice to respond to a privacy and security incident, including

• privacy breach incident response form
• media statements
• employee sanctions policy and procedure
• patient notification letters
• incident tracking worksheets
• and more!

Who Should Attend?

Clinic managers, privacy officers, information technology support, or administrative leads responsible to prevent and to respond to a privacy breach of personally identifying health information.

Facilitator: Jean L. Eaton, BA Admin (Healthcare), CHIM, CC

Your Practical Privacy Coach with Information Mangers Ltd, will lead this in-person live interactive workshop to give clinic managers and privacy officers practical tips to manage privacy breaches.

Jean has helped hundreds of independent community physicians, chiropractors, dentists, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers complete their privacy compliance, practice management, and privacy management obligations. She has visited hundreds of practices across Canada.

Jean’s career started as a receptionist and transcriptionist in a busy family medical walk-in practice. She moved into health records and health information management and hospital administration in hospitals, regional health authorities, cancer agencies across Canada and Alberta Health.

Now, Jean specializes her consulting practice to independent healthcare practices who want to start, grow, or improve their practice administration so that healthcare providers can focus on providing quality healthcare services. Jean provides training to businesses including healthcare on practical privacy and security best practices and privacy breach management.

Event Partner – Accurate Networks

Accurate is a managed services provider born out of a vision to maximize human potential with technology. Our offerings include IT support, IT project facilitation, managed services, and cybersecurity solutions. We believe in collaborative partnerships with our clients, employees, vendors, and surrounding communities. It’s our mission is to use Accurate as a platform to better the lives of the people we work with.