| Data Security and Privacy 2005 18th March |
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The latest
HINZ Seminar on Data Security in Auckland attracted over 50
participants from throughout the North Island with excellent
presentations given by a range of notable speakers.
Programme 9.00am Chairman's Introduction 9.00am Chief Information Officers' Perspective on Privacy and Data Security (1.4 MB PDF) Personal practical experiences, DHB priorities and challenges - balancing clinician, patient, legal perspectives Speaker: Steve Mayo-Smith - is the Chief Information Officer for the Auckland District Health Board in New Zealand, where he is responsible for all aspects of Information Services and Technology. This covers Information Strategic Planning to Computer operations. in this role he works closely with the other regional and national District Health Boards and the Ministry of Health to align regional and national IS Strategies and Services. Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) is New Zealand's largest Health Board, providing all public health services for the metropolitan area of Auckland. ADHB encompasses four major hospitals plus 35 community sites, employs 7500 staff and operates on annual funding of $1billion. Steven's health background includes 2 1/2 years as the General Manager of IM/IS for the New Zealand Health Funding Authority (HFA). The HFA was responsible for the contracting and funding of health and disability services in New Zealand. He has also worked extensively in the United States and New Zealand in a number of organisations including Health Insurance and Information Technology Companies. 9.30am District Health Board Legal Perspective (255K PDF)
Speaker: Janet Anderson- Bidois - For the past five years Janet has been in-house Legal Advisor and Privacy Officer at Waitemata District Health Board dealing with a variety of day to day legal and privacy issues. She previously worked in private legal practice and with the Health and Disability Commissioner's office and graduated LLB 1993, LLM (first class hons) 1999
10.00am Questions and Discussion
Practising medicine in the military environment requires a balance of loyalties. The military Doctor has the same duty to protect the individuals' privacy, but also a duty to the greater good, i.e. the "force protection" of the unit. Often non medical personnel need details on medical conditions that could affect the overall success of the military unit missions. New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is implementing a new IT system to improve access and management of all NZDF health records. Individual health data is protected, but elements are integrated into a deployment management system, with other corporate systems. Although this has distinct advantages, new security challenges have been exposed, identified and strategies put in place. With the health and disability guidelines as a yardstick, the NZDF approach to managing the security changes will be discussed.
Speaker: Karl Cole, Major MBCHB FRNZCGP Dip Health Info - Army Doctor for last 8 years, working Burnham Waiuoru, and Papakura. Deployed to East Timor as well as PNG, Bali Bombings and Nuie for humanitarian disaster relief missions. Has used IT to improved access and quality of medical practise in these environments. Continue interests in applications of IT to the prehospital environment. Currently on sabbatical... 11.00pm Questions and Discussion 11.30pm Technical Perspective of the Vulnerabilities of Health Records (1.4 MB PDF) This presentation will concentrate on discussing the threats to health records from the technical perspective plus what technical/organizational/human measures recommended for reducing that threat. The following issues will be covered: - Unauthorized access to computer networks - Subversive software - Denial of service attacks - Cyber-terrorist attacks and collateral damages issue Nature of each of these attacks will be explained and possible remedies within the health sector recommended. Speaker: Dr Lech J. Janczewski MEng (Warsaw), MASc (Toronto), DEng (Warsaw) - Dr Janczewski has over thirty five years experience in information technology. He was the managing director of the largest IBM installation in Poland, and project manager of the first computing centre in the Niger State of Nigeria. He is Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, Department of Information Science and Operations Management. His area of research includes management of IS resources with the special emphasis on data security. Dr Janczewski wrote above 100 publications presented in scientific journals, conference proceedings and books. He is the chairperson of the New Zealand Information Security Forum and the Fellow of the New Zealand Computer Society.
12.00pm Managing IT Security at Fonterra - any learnings for healthcare? (no presentation available)
Speaker: Andrew Kelly Andrew is Information Services Security Manager for the Fonterra Cooperative Group based in Auckland. He has spent 20 years in IT, the last 17 in IT Security. Andrew began work at Caltex Oil and then went to Databank in Wellington where his career in IT security commenced. He worked for over a decade in the UK for three of the top five UK banks. He also contracted to BT Syntegra in Leeds, who were working on the NHS transformation project. Andrew will provide some insights into managing IS Security for New Zealand's largest corporate - Fonterra - who happen to account for almost the same amount of GDP as we spend in healthcare!
12.30pm Lunch followed by Open Panel Discussion and Questions from the Floor 2.30pm END
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