Building a HIPAA-Compliant Cybersecurity Program: Using NIST 800-30 and CSF to Secure Protected Health Information

Use this book to learn how to conduct a timely and thorough Risk Analysis and Assessment documenting all risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI), which is a key component of the HIPAA Security Rule. The requirement is a focus area for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) during breach investigations and compliance audits. This book lays out a plan for healthcare organizations of all types to successfully comply with these requirements and use the output to build upon the cybersecurity program.  

With the proliferation of cybersecurity breaches, the number of healthcare providers, payers, and business associates investigated by the OCR has risen significantly. It is not unusual for additional penalties to be levied when victims of breaches cannot demonstrate that an enterprise-wide risk assessment exists, comprehensive enough to document all of the risks to ePHI.

Why is it that so many covered entities and business associates fail to comply with this fundamental safeguard? Building a HIPAA Compliant Cybersecurity Program cuts through the confusion and ambiguity of regulatory requirements and provides detailed guidance to help readers:

• Understand and document all known instances where patient data exist
• Know what regulators want and expect from the risk analysis process
• Assess and analyze the level of severity that each risk poses to ePHI
• Focus on the beneficial outcomes of the process: understanding real risks, and optimizing deployment of resources and alignment with business objectives

What You’ll Learn

• Use NIST 800-30 to execute a risk analysis and assessment, which meets the expectations of regulators such as the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
• Understand why this is not just a compliance exercise, but a way to take back control of protecting ePHI
• Leverage the risk analysis process to improve your cybersecurity program
• Know the value of integrating technical assessments to further define risk management activities
• Employ an iterative process that continuously assesses the environment to identify improvement opportunities

Who This Book Is For

Cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance professionals working for organizations responsible for creating, maintaining, storing, and protecting patient information

使用本書學習如何進行及時且全面的風險分析和評估，並記錄所有對電子受保護健康資訊（ePHI）的機密性、完整性和可用性的風險。這是HIPAA安全規則的重要組成部分，也是美國衛生及人類服務部（HHS）民權辦公室（OCR）在違規調查和合規審計中的重點領域。本書提供了一個計劃，幫助各種類型的醫療機構成功遵守這些要求，並利用結果來建立網絡安全計劃。

隨著網絡安全漏洞的增加，受OCR調查的醫療服務提供者、支付者和業務合作夥伴的數量也大幅增加。當遭受漏洞的受害者無法證明存在一個全面的企業級風險評估時，往往會加重處罰。為什麼這麼多受覆蓋實體和業務合作夥伴無法遵守這一基本保障措施呢？《建立符合HIPAA的網絡安全計劃》消除了法規要求的混亂和模糊，並提供了詳細的指導，幫助讀者：

- 瞭解並記錄所有已知的患者數據存在的情況
- 知道監管機構對風險分析過程的期望和要求
- 評估和分析每個風險對ePHI的嚴重程度
- 關注過程的有益結果：瞭解真正的風險，優化資源部署並與業務目標保持一致

你將學到什麼：

- 使用NIST 800-30執行符合民權辦公室（OCR）等監管機構期望的風險分析和評估
- 瞭解這不僅僅是一個合規練習，而是重新掌握保護ePHI的控制權的方法
- 利用風險分析過程改進你的網絡安全計劃
- 知道整合技術評估的價值，進一步定義風險管理活動
- 使用迭代過程持續評估環境，找到改進機會

適合閱讀對象：

- 從事創建、維護、存儲和保護患者信息的組織的網絡安全、隱私和合規專業人士