Table-top Fire Drills Are Cost-Effective Strategies to Prevent and Prepare for a Privacy and Security Incident

Did you know that in Canada, healthcare organizations are increasingly vulnerable to privacy breaches? According to recent statistics,

? Costs* of Breach - $180 per record containing personally identifiable information. If you had 4 physicians in a practice, and all of their patient records were compromised, you might be looking at a cost of $1.44 M

? 53%** of data breaches are caused by malicious insiders

? Privacy legislation includes fines and jail time for malicious privacy breaches

? Healthcare entities have experienced a 53% increase in data breach costs since 2020

? Organizations that have identified a privacy officer and an incident response plan reduced the cost of a privacy breach and often avoided breaches altogether.

Breaches not only compromise patient trust but also result in significant financial and reputational damage to the affected practices.

How Would You Respond To A Privacy Breach?

We all know bad things can happen. Whether it’s an accident or a malicious attempt to steal information, would you rather panic, or confidently take charge?

Table-top fire drills are a cost-effective way to prepare for a privacy and security incident in your healthcare organization.

Are you in the Timmins / northern Ontario region? Attend the in-person Table Top Privacy Breach Fire Drills Workshop on Wednesday June 19 from 12:30 - 3:30.

You should have a written privacy breach incident response plan in your healthcare practice. But, have you practiced your response plan lately?

A table-top privacy breach fire drill allows your incident response team to rehearse their skills in a controlled exercise.

Do you remember your school days when every month or two you had a fire drill?

The fire alarm would go off and everybody would go out the doors and very calmly go down the stairs and out the doors and into their muster point.

We take the same approach with privacy breach fire drills. Fires can happen at different times, places, and for different reasons. Whey you change the scenario, you develop alternate strategies or playbooks to best respond to the fire.

A privacy breach incident playbook contains all the actionable steps to take when a privacy beach incident occurs. Your playbook will have many ‘plays’ or actions to take when different types of privacy breach incidents occur. You could also think of it as a recipe book. You have many types of recipes to select from. Identify the ingredients that you have on hand (or the characteristics of the latest privacy incident) and select the most appropriate recipe to resolve the incident.

Email or message Jean right away to register for the June 19 workshop.

Wednesday June 19 from 12:30 - 3:30 pm

Cost: $250 + tax includes templates and resources

Hosted by the Misiway Milopemahtesewin CHC, Timmins, Ontario

Are you in Alberta? Save the date for the Alberta workshopo on September 25, 2024. Message me to be added to the early registration announcements!