Hipaa Compliance Officer
CurrentAssists in the identification, implementation and maintenance of Benefits Administration information privacy policies and procedures .Serves in a leadership role for the Privacy Oversight Committee’s activities.Performs ongoing compliance monitoring activities.Works with legal counsel to ensure the organization has and maintains appropriate privacy and confidentiality consent & authorization forms, information notices and materials reflecting current organization and legal practices and requirements.Oversees, directs, delivers, or ensures delivery of privacy training and orientation to all employees and applicable business associates.Participates in the development, implementation, and ongoing compliance monitoring of all business associate agreements to ensure that all privacy concerns, requirements and responsibilities are addressed.Establishes and maintains a mechanism to track access to protected health information, within the purview of the organization and as required by law to allow qualified individuals to review or receive a report on such activity.Oversees and ensures the right of the organization’s members to inspect, amend and restrict access to protected health information, when appropriate.Establishes and administers a process for receiving, documenting, tracking, investigating, and taking action on all complaints concerning the organization’s privacy policies and procedures.Ensures compliance with privacy practices and consistent application of sanctions for failure to comply with privacy policies for all individuals in the organization’s workforce. Initiates, facilitates and promotes activities to foster information privacy awareness within the organization and related entities.Serves as a member of, the organization’s IRB or Privacy Committee. Reviews all system-related information security plans throughout network to ensure alignment between security and privacy practices, and acts as a liaison to the information systems department.