Henry Ford Health System Builds Organizational Risk Approach

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System is preparing for a future in which virtual visits replace office visits and patient data collected by smart devices is ubiquitous, and has crafted an organizational framework for its compliance and risk activities it hopes can see it through to that future, even as the details of the technology evolve.

“We have a system used to manage risk,” said Christy Wheaton, Henry Ford Health System’s vice president and chief information privacy and security officer. “We put risk in the system. We can do gap assessments and health assessments in the system. We want to take it to the next level. To increase the maturity of our program, we want to make sure we are having a discussion with the people who can assess risk. In that way, the quality of our risk management program and understanding of the risk will be greatly increased.”

Wheaton and Elizabeth Callahan-Morris, vice president and deputy general counsel for hospital operations at Henry Ford Health System, spoke at the recent conference sponsored by the HHS Office for Civil Rights and the National Institute of Standards and Technology about how their large health system uses an organizational risk approach to current and emerging threats and opportunities in health care.

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