Prepare a two-page executive report for Barbara Silva, CIO, addressing the following:
Section 1: State the overview of HIPAA Privacy Rules.
Section 2: Respond to the following questions:
Steering committee: Who would you include on the steering committee that is responsible for ongoing HIPAA privacy compliance? Who should lead this committee?
HIPAA education: What type of ongoing education activities would you provide for the workforce of this organization to facilitate compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule? How would you implement these activities?
Business associates: How would you ensure that you have identified all of the organization's current business associates and developed business associate agreements with them?
HIPAA compliance: What process would you use to update these policies and procedures? How frequently would you update them? How would you ensure that they continue to be valid and HIPAA compliant?