April 7, 2006

Health Information Privacy and Security Week

As part of National Health Information Privacy and Security Week, the MGH Privacy Office, MGH Information Security and MGH Police and Security will host information tables from April 10 through 14 to educate MGH employees, staff, volunteers, patients and visitors about the hospital's policies and procedures to protect private health information. The tables will be located in the Main Corridor April 10 and 14, from 7 to 10 am and April 12 and 13, from 11 am to 2 pm.

During the week, MGH employees from these departments will be on hand to answer questions and share information about the hospital's privacy and security measures to protect health information — including faxing guidelines, instructions to report an information breach, the proper destruction of protected health
information, securing laptops and PDAs and steps to limit the risk of identity theft.

For more information about Health Information Privacy and Security Week, contact Eileen Bryan, HIPAA compliance specialist, at embryan@partners.org.