Director, Internal Auditor / Privacy Officer

Company: Mohawk Valley Health System
Location: Utica
Posted on: January 9, 2022

Job Description:

The Privacy Officer oversees the development and implementation of corporate-wide privacy principles, policies and practices. The Privacy Officer is responsible for coordinating all corporate activities with privacy implications, as well as monitoring all of the organization's services and systems to assure meaningful privacy practices. The Privacy Officer also advocates and protects patient privacy by serving as a key privacy advisor for patients, handling disputes and managing patient requests regarding their medical record. The Privacy Officer is responsible for compliance functions at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, St. Luke's Home, VNA, Senior Network Health and Mohawk Valley Homecare.

Provides development guidance and assists in the identification, implementation, and maintenance of organization information privacy policies and procedures in coordination with organization management and administration, the Privacy Committee, and legal counsel.
Works with organization senior management to establish an organization-wide Privacy Committee.
Serves in a leadership role for the Privacy Committee's activities.
Performs initial and periodic information privacy risk assessments and conducts related ongoing compliance monitoring activities in coordination with the entity's other compliance and operational assessment functions.
Works with legal counsel and management, key departments, and committees to ensure the organization has and maintains appropriate privacy and confidentiality consent, authorization forms, and information notices and materials reflecting current organization and legal practices and requirements.
Oversees, directs, delivers, or ensures delivery of initial and privacy training and orientation to all employees, volunteers, medical and professional staff, contractors, alliances, business associates, and other appropriate third parties.
Participates in the development, implementation, and ongoing compliance monitoring of all trading partner and business associate agreements, to ensure all privacy concerns, requirements, and responsibilities are addressed.

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