Healthcare Data Security and Risk Management Guide

The Healthcare Data Security & Risk Management course is designed to equip learners with a comprehensive, practical, and strategically grounded understanding of how to protect sensitive patient data within today’s complex digital healthcare ecosystem. Through this advanced, four-hour program, participants gain the ability to analyze, evaluate, and strengthen safeguards for protected health information (PHI) and electronic PHI (ePHI) across electronic health records, connected medical devices, telemedicine platforms, artificial intelligence systems, and third-party vendor environments. Following a structured, industry-aligned curriculum, each module integrates regulatory requirements, technical controls, and operational best practices, reinforced through real-world healthcare scenarios, applied demonstrations, case studies, and guided exercises.

Learners will develop job-ready competencies in healthcare cybersecurity governance, HIPAA Security Rule compliance, data classification and lifecycle management, risk assessment methodologies, and third-party risk oversight. The course emphasizes a holistic understanding of healthcare-specific threats, including ransomware, phishing and smishing attacks, insider risks, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) vulnerabilities, AI-enabled threats, and medical device security challenges. Participants will evaluate and design practical mitigation strategies such as network segmentation, access controls, multi-factor authentication, and continuous risk monitoring frameworks. By bridging policy, technology, and human factors, the course enables learners to move beyond checklist compliance toward proactive and adaptive risk management.

By the end of the course, learners will be fully prepared to design defensible data protection strategies, contribute meaningfully to incident response and breach management efforts, and support organizational resilience in high-stakes healthcare environments. They will gain the confidence to evaluate security controls, apply breach notification requirements, and synthesize knowledge into actionable policies and response plans tailored to their organizations. This course empowers healthcare IT professionals, compliance officers, risk managers, and administrators to transition from passive compliance enforcers into active guardians of patient data—promoting confidentiality, integrity, and availability across modern healthcare systems where trust, safety, and continuity of care are paramount.