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Compliance Planning
Does your compliance plan and program exhibit all the features OCR recommends?
- Regular employee training
- Incident response action plans
- Up-to-date policies & procedures
- Regular internal audits
- Systematic comprehensive security risk analysis
Our compliance program strategic planning services help you draw the road map that drives compliance and keeps you on track. They also help you prepare for the first steps of industry certifications attainable through ISO, SOC2, and HITRUST ® (we’re an authorized Readiness Licensee), for which we also help you prepare.
We help you develop a strategy-focused compliance plan, review key risk areas, and define and prioritize risk mitigation activities. Talk to us, too, about training materials or training sessions for privacy and security. Our workforce training can be in person or via webinar, plus we assure the most current – and correct – information is covered.
Privacy & Security Compliance Officer
With our professional privacy and security compliance officer services, you gain expert executive services without the overhead that goes with maintaining a full staff of privacy and security specialists as employees. Tap into the privacy and security expertise of Apgar & Associates’ Julia Huddleston, CIPP/US, CIPM, CCSFP on an as-needed basis, without a retainer.
Under the HIPAA Security Rule, both covered entities and business associates must meet the requirement to appoint a Security Officer. Our services help you meet those requirements.
Workforce Training Options
Topic-Specific Training
Apgar and Associates offers specialized compliance-related training for anticipated federal issuances of regulations. The training can be tailored to roles, functions – like Health Information Management (HIM) – particular departments or staff in-service. For instance, we’ve tailored workforce training for behavioral health providers to address information security essentials relating to COVID-era changes to 42 CFR Part 2. For a large non-profit, we customized sessions to speak to specific concerns related to self-insured health plans.
With an eye to the ever-shifting landscape around reproductive health, Apgar and Associates foresees a variety of regulatory changes at the state level, as well. Consider that in the US, we’re up to 15 states with their own privacy and infosec-related regulations that go beyond HIPAA. You know requirements are bound to get more complex, not more streamlined.
HIPAA Training Standards
For general overall HIPAA Privacy and Security training for the overall workforce, we’ve looked into various vendors. This includes those offering the on-demand, ongoing “small bite” cyber-awareness, privacy, and infosec training that makes the critical difference in human error risk. For your crucial core and follow-up HIPAA Privacy and Security workforce training, consider contacting one of these companies – and remember to do your own vendor vetting!
Human error remains a big risk to your organization’s privacy and security compliance. Seriously consider the implementation of required ongoing quarterly awareness training to keep employees aware of newly evolving infosec risks like social engineering, whale phishing, and more.
Know what’s right and what’s not right with your compliance program.
Between compliance program planning and executive compliance services, you’ll reduce risk and exposure to potential PHI violations or data breaches. We use preventive measures like risk analyses, audits, privacy program review and workforce training to assure your compliance with new laws and revisions.
For more information about our compliance strategic planning, or privacy and security compliance officer services, contact us via email or at (503) 384-2538.
Rest easy knowing your privacy and security program oversight is handled.
To find out how we can help you get through a data breach, audit, and more call (503) 384-2538 or email us: info@apgarandassoc.com
