Privacy & Compliance Analyst

Overview

The Privacy & Compliance Analyst is responsible for helping support compliance and privacy related activities, initiatives, and processes. The Compliance Analyst responsibilities include responding to inquiries and incidents, leading compliance and privacy program projects, conducting training, performing auditing/monitoring activities, and preparing policies. This individual will assist in achieving compliance workplan goals and/or other special compliance projects. Work may also include developing policies and procedures, case management, preparing corrective action plans, training and education and other tasks and duties as assigned.

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

Responsibilities

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist the Compliance and Privacy managers in the development and execution of the Institute’s Compliance and Privacy Programs to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulatory requirements
• Respond to privacy inquiries and conduct investigations by reviewing policies, laws, and regulations; performing risk assessments; identifying root causes and trends; recommending corrective actions; documenting cases; and resolving assigned incidents in compliance with reporting requirements.
• Support assessments, inventory, and gap analyses of hospital and departmental policies to ensure compliance with privacy standards, federal audit readiness, and alignment with applicable laws; assist in policy formulation, review, and publication.
• Contribute to the development of new hire, annual, and department-specific privacy and compliance training; respond to inquiries about policies; and collaborate on creating and improving privacy and compliance web content.
• Perform medical record access audits, monitor activities, and generate summary reports; oversee patient rights related to medical records; and ensure accurate and timely breach notifications for regulatory compliance.
• Assist in federal and state privacy program audits, inquiries, or investigations; manage conflict of interest surveys and workforce outside activities; and maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant regulations and organizational needs.
• Participate in educational programs, workshops, and literature reviews to enhance expertise; contribute to achieving privacy and compliance program goals and workplan objectives.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

PATIENT CONTACT:

• Patient interaction, but no direct/clinical contact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• One (1) to three (3) years of full-time experience with health care privacy and/or health information management required
• CIPP/US OR CIPM, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) accreditation, Registered Health Information Technician or Administrator (RHIT/RHIA), compliance and/or academic medical center experience preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Strong commitment to maintain patient confidentiality and privacy

• Ability to work with all levels of staff and clinicians including attorneys, department heads, information systems, security, and human resources

• Commitment and ability to:

• work in a team-based environment,
• handle patient interactions/communication with extreme care, patience and consideration, and
• create an environment with open channels of communication within the Institute with workforce members, patients and others

• Possess excellent organization, attention to detail, facilitation, technical and analytical skills
• Approach problems with curiosity and open-mindedness and offer new ideas, solutions and/or options.
• Demonstrate discretion, diplomacy, and good judgment
• Possess excellent communication and presentation skills. Clearly and concisely express ideas in groups and one-to-one conversations, formal and informal documents
• Adapt writing and communications styles to fit the audience
• Project management and change management skills; ensuring projects come to fruition from inception to completion
• Ability to appropriately prioritize work responsibilities and effectively manage fluctuation in workload demands
• Adaptability to a fast-paced environment
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) expertise and knowledge of or ability to learn electronic medical record auditing software

At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are equally committed to diversifying our faculty and staff. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and diverse professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.