This discussion will focus on what Risk Managers could do to put policies and procedures in place to protect healthcare organizations like Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC). CAMC is an 838 bed non-for-profit tertiary medical Center (CAMC, 2015). CAMC promotes a robust performance improvement environment that employees over 7,000 employees that all work to provide the highest level of quality for every patient every day. As a Risk Manager for CAMC and working with Administration and our Information Services Department, we would first need to acknowledge the HIPAA-HITECH Security Rule that governs privacy in healthcare. The ruling states that we will pursue practices for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic PHI of its patients. …show more content…
As a Risk Manager you would need to work in collaboration with many departments specifically to ensure that all is being done. Understanding that CAMC is an High Reliability Organization (HRO), it is important to look at nothing is ignored or overlooked in training. A major part of that would be the implementation of policies that would