Associate Privacy Analyst - Remote (2024)

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Associate Privacy Analyst performs regular and proactive audits to monitor compliance with City of Hope’s privacy policies and to ensure compliance with the Federal HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Privacy Rule and other applicable federal and state privacy regulations. They are also responsible for fielding and responding to privacy-related inquiries including investigations, auditing, monitoring, and improvement activities, and using judgment and expert knowledge to escalate issues to the Privacy Manager and/or Chief Privacy Officer.

The Associate Privacy Analyst will also assist in reviewing and responding to various privacy related audits and preparing notifications to patients and regulatory authorities for privacy violations. The Associate Privacy Analyst communicates regularly with other departments including Health Information Management Services, Patient Financial Services, Human Resources, and Information Security, and with various levels of staff regarding privacy and security issues.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• At the direction of the Privacy Manager, assists in performing regular and proactive internal privacy access monitoring reviews or provides support for external privacy access monitoring reviews within established timeframes. Assists in the follow up related to these reviews, including compliance investigations, internal reporting, monitoring, and facilitating corrective action plans and process improvements.
• At the direction of the Privacy Manager, assists in response to an investigation of any matters brought forward by leadership, staff or through other reporting mechanisms such as the Compliance Hotline or regulatory authorities relating to patient privacy, including audits and investigations commenced by (i) the federal Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services; (ii) state regulatory authorities; and (iii) any other government or agency.
• Supports ongoing auditing and monitoring activities related to privacy matters. Uses judgment and expertise to identify potentially serious concerns and ensure timely escalation of these issues to the Privacy Manager and/or Chief Privacy Officer.
• Assists in the support and maintenance of privacy related tools such as proactive patient monitoring software and Governance, Risk and (GRC) software.
• Works collaboratively with the Privacy Manager in developing and presenting compliance training related to patient privacy.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s degree. 4 additional years of experience plus the minimum experience requirement may substitute for minimum education.
• 1-3+ years’ experience in privacy, information security, compliance, or another healthcare-related field. Knowledge and experience with patient privacy and information security, or a similar job that required interpretation of complex regulations and communication of same to all levels of staff. Individuals must possess excellent attention to detail, strong writing and verbal communications skills, and be able to make critical decisions based on data analysis.
• Knowledge of HIPAA, HITECH, and privacy regulations. Excellent attention to detail, strong written and verbal communication skills, and analytical and critical decision-making skills.
• Certification in Healthcare Privacy Compliance (CHPC) or other privacy related certification must be earned within the first year of employment preferred.

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