This book includes the precautions and procedures that address the concerns of HIPAA, but presents them along with other business components in order to emphasize the need for a holistic approach when constructing and maintaining a business plan.
This book examines business continuity planning as adapted to encompass the requirements of The Health Care Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA. We examine the typical business continuity planning model and highlight how the special requirements of HIPAA have shifted the emphasis. The layout of this book was designed to afford assistance, hints, and templates to the person charged with the task of implementing business continuity planning into a healthcare organization.
This book includes the special precautions and procedures that address the unique concerns of HIPAA, but it will present them along with the other business components in order to emphasis the need to take a holistic approach when constructing and maintaining a business continuity plan.
About the Author
Jim Barnes received an early introduction to check-listed emergency operating procedures as a commander of an ICBM launch crew in the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. While in the Air Force, Jim received a Master's degree in Economics, which led him into being a bank economist when he left the service. This economics and financial background have forged a view of business continuity planning that is more business than technically oriented.
Jim has over 15 years of extensive experience in Business Continuity Planning. He was in charge of designing Business Continuity Planning software which was marketed and used internationally. Most recently, Jim assisted in the design of a Business Continuity Certification course, which he taught to "Big Four" consultants in Europe, South America, and the United States. Jim has written over 300 Business Continuity Plans most of which were for Health Services "Payer" institutions and for Financial Institutions. Jim has completed and has published, A Guide to Business Continuity Planning, E-Commerce Security-Business Continuity Planning: A Technical Reference Guide, and has written The Linchpin to Successful Business Continuity Planning in the Fall, 2003 Disaster Recovery Journal.
Jim is the founder and CEO of Barnes Continuity Planners, Inc. (BCP, Inc), a consulting firm that assists client companies with in business continuity planning. BCP, Inc. specializes in creating recovery plans, recovery strategies, and institutionalizing continuity management within an organization's culture. Jim is a Certified Recovery Planner and a Member of the Business Continuity Institute.