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Description:

Cybersecurity guidance suggests that breach of healthcare information should not be considered a matter of “if”, but rather a matter of “when”. How an organization prepares and responds to an episode of breach is just as important as defending itself from breach. Unfortunately, Health Centers are seen as a domain with high potential for data breach and consequently it is critical for Health Center leadership to embrace breach mitigation across their entire organization vs being a matter to be addressed by their health IT team. This session will discuss breach mitigation, ways in which to operationalize cybersecurity in order to better mitigate risks, review risk management tools and methods for planning cybersecurity-based incident response.

Learning Objectives:

After participating in this session, attendees will be able to:

• Describe primary healthcare security risk assessment domains
• Describe cybersecurity risk management frameworks and incident response planning tools
• Identify 1-3 specific resources from the HITEQ Center knowledgebase that can improve an organization’s ability to manage health information security risks

Speaker
Dr. Nathan Botts, PhD
Dr. Nathan Botts is a Senior Study Director at Westat, within their Healthcare Delivery Research and Evaluation department. He is a health informatics and cybersecurity specialist with over 15 years of clinical software and systems research and development experience. He serves as the Privacy & Security domain lead and the Patient Engagement domain lead for the HITEQ Center. Previous to this, he was the facilitator for the Privacy and Security workgroup for the ONC Knowledge Sharing Network for Regional Extension Centers. Dr. Botts is a Professor of Cybersecurity for Purdue University Global and is a Co-Chair for the HL7 Mobile Health workgroup, leading standards development for the HL7 Consumer Mobile Health Application Functional Framework for Privacy and Security considerations.