HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Practitioner (HCISSP)

In this course, you will boost your knowledge and skills related to healthcare security and privacy, and also helps you prepare for the (ISC)2 HCISPP exam. HCISPPs provide the front-line defense in protecting health information. As the healthcare industry faces increasing challenges to keeping personal health information protected, there is a growing need to ensure knowledgeable and credentialed security and privacy practitioners are in place to protect this sensitive information.

Content


  1. Healthcare Industry
    • Understand the healthcare environment
    • Understand third-party relationships
    • Understand foundational health data management concepts
  2. Regulatory Environment
    • Identify applicable regulations
    • Understand international regulations and controls
    • Compare internal practices against new policies and procedures
    • Understand compliance frameworks
    • Understand responses for risk-based decision
    • Understand and comply with code of conduct/ethics in healthcare information
  3. Privacy and Security in HealthCare
    • Understand security objectives/attributes
    • Understand general security definitions/concepts
    • Understand general privacy principles
    • Understand the relationship between privacy and security
    • Understand the disparate nature of sensitive data handling implications
  4. Information Governance and Risk Management
    • Understand security and privacy governance
    • Understand basic risk management methodology
    • Understand information risk management life cycles
    • Participate in risk management activities
  5. Information Risk Assessment
    • Understand risk assessment
    • Identify control assessment procedures from within organizational risk frameworks
    • Participate in risk assessment consistent with role in organization
    • Participate in efforts to remediate gaps
  6. Third-party Risk Management
    • Understand the definition of third parties in healthcare context
    • Maintain a list of third-party organizations
    • Determine when third-party assessment is required
    • Support third-party assessments and audits
    • Respond to notifications of security/privacy events
    • Support establishment of third-party connectivity
    • Promote awareness of the third-party requirements (internally and externally)
    • Participate in remediation efforts
    • Respond to third-party requests regarding privacy/security eventĀ