Taking the Risk and Complexity out of Business Continuity (for Healthcare Organizations)

Why Should You Attend:

Many healthcare organizations are very slow to initiate and complete Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans; apart from the Emergency preparedness plans required by their JCAHO accreditation standing. Part of the difficulty is how they see themselves as business types (compared to other types). Another hurdle is the cost and time needed to complete these and how this could impact or impede delivery of patient care.

This 90-minute webinar presentation will address the misconceptions about the process of preparing, testing, and enacting the plan, and provide better understanding of the process so that more healthcare organizations can get them done and improve their compliance posture as well as their disaster preparedness.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• The need for the plan: compliance, organizational survival, and information protection.
• How to approach the problem:  the goal, approaches, breaking down the process, and getting started.
• Organizing the project to achieve timely and cost-effective success.
• Beginning steps: The Risk Assessment and the Business Impact Analysis.
• Plan Steps and activities:  What and how to build a business continuity plan that actually works.
• Plan Testing: What and How to Test your business continuity plan.
• Post-Test: Change Management, Awareness and Training.
• How to evaluate success: Compliance AND a Good Plan.

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all healthcare organizations accredited by the Joint Commission. The individuals who will benefit include:

• Organization leadership
• Managers of Patient Safety
• Accreditation and compliance staff
• CIO and IT Technical Staff

Instructor Profile:

Mr. Leo, has been in Information System for 35 years, and an Information Security professional for over 30 years. He has worked internationally as a Systems Analyst/Engineer, and as a Security and Privacy Consultant. His past employers include IBM, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Computer Sciences Corporation, and Rockwell International. A NASA contractor for 22 years, he was from 1998 to 2002 Director of Security Engineering for the International Space Station and Chief Security Architect for Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center. From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Leo was the Director of Information Systems and Chief Information Security Officer for the Managed Care Division of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.

Since 2002, Mr. Leo has been intimately involved with HIPAA consulting, training and compliance programs. From 2002 until 2006, his role at the University of Texas required be become an expert at HIPAA requirements in order to successfully lead the institution through a complete HIPAA compliance program.

Having been a professional educator since 1998, Mr. Leo has trained and certified nearly 4000 CISSP candidates, and since 2002 has delivered training in HIPAA compliance to over 800 students, most in roles of IT Privacy and Security IT operations, Chief Security, Chief Privacy, and institutional legal counsel. He continues his successful HIPAA/HITECH consulting and training practice as a vital part of his professional career.

Mr. Leo serves as a member of several university advisory boards overseeing curriculum development and programs in the Information Assurance and Engineering areas; including Texas State Technical College, DeVry University, and Voorhees College. Mr. Leo is a Past Member on the Editorial Boards for Auerbach Publishing and Homeland Security Magazine (ACFEI), and the Senior Advisory Panel for week Publications. Mr. Leo’s recent book, “The HIPAA Program Reference Handbook”, was published in January 2005. His current projects include Series Editor for the “Critical Infrastructure Protection and Cybersecurity Engineering Series” for Auerbach, and submission of the entry on HIPAA/HITECH for the Encyclopedia of Information Technology.

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