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PPV: Standardize privacy reviews for simplicity and success
EHR Connection, January 28, 2008
Prior to developing the privacy impact analysis tool that San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) currently uses, Christy Navarro, CIPP,CHW's senior privacy and data security analyst, knew there had to be a better way.
When business owners introduced new software applications, contracts, or projects and shared PHI and other sensitive business information, it was a challenge for CHW's privacy officials to examine the privacy ramifications of such activities and make the necessary recommendations. Privacy officials at each of CHW's 42 hospitals and medical centers in California, Arizona, and Nevada conducted their own nonuniform reviews, looking at all 40 privacy-related policies regardless of the nature of the project.
The privacy review process-an examination of various business activities to ensure consistency with organizational privacy policies-needed simplification and standardization, says Navarro.
"We were all essentially doing the same activity using a different approach each time. We needed to standardize it," she adds.
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