Understand your priorities: EHR to Digital Hospitals

A staggering volume of electronic information now flows through the healthcare industry-and with it, more complex requirements for patient confidentiality and compliance.
Healthcare organizations are today deploying applications, portals, and other systems to support Electronic Health Records (EHR). And since online communications among healthcare professionals are also on the rise, security is an urgent concern. Do you have all the facts your organization needs to succeed?

Ensure information integrity and availability
Join ecfirst.com, PrideVel, and Cisco for a luncheon and executive briefing, led by Uday Ali Pabrai, CEO of ecfirst.com, to learn about:

• The National Healthcare Information Network, Regional Health Information Organizations, and the impact of EHR on application architecture, information security, and compliance.
  
• Regulatory compliance requirements related to information security with emphasis on legislation, such as HIPAA Security, FISMA, and Sarbanes-Oxley.
  
• Designing and implementing a Service Oriented Architecture to enable flexibility in the healthcare application architecture.
  
• NIST guidelines and their direct influence on your organization's ability to establish a common core of best practices in information security.
  
• Alternate site options to ensure high availability of critical business information to address compliance requirements and enable clinicians with access to vital data.

Agenda:

11:00 am Registration
11:30 am Seminar begins
1:30 pm Seminar ends

About the Speaker

Uday Ali Pabrai, CISSP, CSCS™, is the chief executive of ecfirst.com, an Inc. 500 business and an organization exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA). A highly sought after information security and regulatory compliance expert, he has successfully delivered solutions on healthcare information technologies to organizations across the United States. Author of The Art of Information Security, he developed a unique security methodology called, BizShield™: The Seven Steps to Enterprise Security™. BizShield™ today provides the framework for many security initiatives at several client organizations. He has delivered highly tailored security solutions to hundreds of clients across several industries.

With over two decades of hands-on consulting experience in information security and compliance, Mr. Pabrai was the creator of the world’s most successful Internet skills certification, CIW. Mr. Pabrai also established the industry’s first certification program on HIPAA - Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP) and Certified HIPAA Security Specialist™ (CHSS™). He recently launched the Certified Security Compliance Specialist™ (CSCS™) program that has been delivered to hospitals and other heathcare organizations.

Mr. Pabrai’s clients have included hundreds of hospitals, long term care facilities, Microsoft, Principal Financial, U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, as well as numerous federal, state and county governments. His career was launched with the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear research facility, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago. During his career, he has served as Vice Chairman and in several senior Officer Positions with NASDAQ-based firms. Mr. Pabrai is a member of the U.S. FBI InfraGard.