Privacy Manager

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Worker Type:Regular

Job Highlights:

SSM Health has an exciting opportunity for an experienced privacy professional to join our team in a Privacy Manager role! Privacy research, compliance, risk, and/or regulatory experience is ideal. Privacy certifications including AHIMA CHPS and HCCA CHPC are not required but would be helpful.

This opportunity is open to candidates located near one of our ministries located in MO, IL, OK, or WI. The role is not a fully remote position and would require working onsite at one of our nearby ministries for rounding and education purposes.

We look forward to reviewing your application materials!

Job Summary:

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides input into the short-term goals and manages privacy program operations. Actively advances expertise and skills related to compliance with federal and state privacy laws, industry standards, and leading practices.
• Serves as the subject matter expert related to privacy regulations, customer service, risk assessment and work plan development, and effective investigation management and often completes key tasks or projects requiring this expertise.
• Supports departmental staff in their day-to-day processes and protocols for intake, discovery, outcome, breach analysis, and mitigation/corrective action. Manages timely completion of issue documentation within the compliance risk repository and reports out volumes, trends, and other critical information to inform strategic direction of the privacy program.
• Oversees processes for monitoring workforce access, use, and disclosure of protected health information through automated alerts of potentially inappropriate data access and exfiltration. Provides direction on content, messaging, and delivery of HIPAA training and communication activities administered by privacy specialists.
• Maintains portfolio of privacy policies that are current and relevant and assists in policy interpretation as needed to address privacy issues and concerns.
• Assists in implementation and management of a data privacy framework to support role-based user access and routine data sharing with business partners, affiliates, and third-party clinicians, and others with whom protected health information is shared.
• Provides guidance on record retention, release, amendment, sharing and restriction of patient information, accounting of disclosures, and other obligations under HIPAA and other regulations.
• Oversees periodic privacy risk assessments, privacy walk-throughs, record retention rounds, and other ongoing compliance monitoring activities in coordination with the Corporate Responsibility, local Human Resource offices, and operational assessment functions.
• Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic environment and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem solving skills.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree

EXPERIENCE

• Five years’ experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

• None

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