HITRUST Announces Third Party Assurance Summit 2018 | Hit Trust Alliance | 20 February 2018 | Hyatt Regency O'Hare, 9300 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, IL 60018, USA

The HITRUST Third Party Assurance Summit will bring together leaders and experts representing customers, vendors and consultancies in various aspects of business continuity, information security, audit and compliance, and risk management. It will span two days of sharing perspectives and lessons learned, exploring implementation challenges and best practices, and facilitating peer discussions to identify third-party risk management strategies leveraging the HITRUST Assessment Exchange and the HITRUST CSF Assurance Program—the most widely utilized assessment approach for third-party assurance.

The Summit provides a combination of facilitated discussions, educational sessions and networking opportunities with general sessions and tracks specific to customer or vendor areas of interest.

Topics include:
• Customers’ perspectives and challenges around implementing an effective third-party assurance program.
• Vendor and business partner perspectives and challenges in meeting customers’ information requests efficiently.
• How states impact Health Information Exchanges.
• Legal and regulatory considerations in the U.S. and internationally.
• Why collaboration and leadership combined with HITRUST CSF Assurance is a win for everyone.
• Third-party (and fourth-party) identification and risk ranking; outreach and communications; assurance-related contracts implications and approaches
• Leveraging information privacy and security as a competitive advantage.
• Improving information security and reporting to meet the requirements of customers.
• What to expect when undergoing a HITRUST CSF Assessment.
• Leveraging HITRUST Assessment XChange and vendor risk management systems.

2018 Speakers

Mike Swyt
VP, Information Security Risk Management, Change Healthcare

Andrew Hicks
Managing Principal, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Coalfire

Rick Gilmore
Information Risk Manager, Associate Director - Americas & EU, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Phil Curran
Chief Information Assurance & Privacy Officer, Cooper University Health Care

Travis Good
CEO & Co-Founder, Datica

Mark Jacobs
CIO, Delaware Health Information Network

Chad Phillips
Risk & Financial Advisory Director, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Brenda Magri
Division ISO - Director, Risk Management, Fiserv

Jutta Williams
Program Manager - Health Research, Google

Doug Peterson
CISO, Great-West Financial

Brenda Callaway
Divisional VP, Information Security Risk Management, HCSC

Jennifer Inserro
Senior Director - IT GRC, HCSC

Tim Belardi
Director, GRC Technology & Third Party Risk Management, Highmark Health

Chuck Donina
VP, Technology and Performance Assurance, Highmark Health

Omar Khawaja
VP & CISO, Highmark Health

Carl Anderson
Chief Legal Officer & SVP Government Affairs, HITRUST

Michael Frederick
VP, Operations, HITRUST

Elie Nasrallah
Director, Cyber Security Strategy, HITRUST

Michael Odenwald
VP, Third Party Programs, Strategic Accounts & Partnerships, HITRUST

Michael Parisi
Vice President, Assurance Strategy & Community Development, HITRUST

Ken Vander Wal, Chief Compliance Officer, HITRUST

Chetana Sankhye
Director - Vendor Risk Management, Kaiser Permanente

Hector Rodriguez
Worldwide Health CISO, Microsoft

Christie Hall
Program Manager, Division of Healthcare Innovation, NY State Department of Health

Lee Penn
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer, PDHI

Dennis Quandt
Director, Risk Assurance, PwC

Adrian Christie
Risk Assurance Director, PwC

Bob Smith
Senior Manager, Technology Compliance, Salesforce

Bryan Sheehan
Senior Director, Enterprise Information Security, UnitedHealth Group

John Houston
VP, Privacy and Information Security & Associate Counsel, UPMC

Taylor Lehmann
CISO, Wellforce, Tufts Medical Center

Kirk Nahra
Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP

2018 Sponsors

• 360 Advanced
• A-Lign
• AGIO
• CoalFire
• ControlCase
• Deloitte
• Drummond Group
• KirkpatrickPrice
• nccgroup
• PwC
• R-sam
• S3 Specialized Security Services