Privacy Specialist - Administrative Office Building (3362) (Healthcare)
Join the #1 hospital in Wisconsin! We are seeking a Privacy Specialist to: - Implement and facilitate ongoing privacy compliance auditing, monitoring, and education activities. - Provide support and guidance to ensure UW Health remains in compliance with all Federal and state privacy program rules, regulations, and administrative requirements. - Establish and administer a process for receiving, documenting, tracking, investigating, and taking action related to all patient complains concerning privacy and confidentiality. Education: Minimum - Associate Degree in Business, Paralegal Studies, Coding, Health Information Management (HIM), Communications, or related field. Two (2) years of relevant experience in Compliance, Coding, Billing, HIM, or Legal experience may be considered in lieu of the degree in addition to the experience below. Preferred - Bachelor's degree in Business, Health Information Management (HIM), Communications, Information Technology, or other relevant health care related fields. Work Experience: Minimum - Three (3) years' experience in health care or corporate compliance program. Preferred - Previous privacy-related work experience. Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities: - Knowledge of federal and state regulations related to HIPAA privacy rules. - Basic knowledge of medical terminology and disease processes. - Effective organizational, planning, controlling, scheduling, and project management abilities. - Effective leadership abilities. - Effective oral and written communication skills at all levels within the organization. - Effective analytical ability required to develop and analyze options, recommend solutions to, and solve complex problems and issues. - Ability to affect collaborative alliances and promote teamwork. - Ability to independently analyze data and present it in an understandable way to non-technical users. - Knowledge of healthcare-related privacy compliance and auditing techniques. - Excellent presentation skills demonstrated an ability to present oneself and one's ideas with clarity, confidence, and poise. - Strong time management skills for working on multiple projects. - Ability to work on assignments of varying difficulty and complexity, while exercising independent judgment. Physical Requirements: Sedentary: Ability to lift up to 10 pounds maximum and occasionally lifting and/or carrying such articles as dockets, ledgers and small tools. Although a sedentary job is defined as one, which involves sitting, a certain amount of walking and standing is often necessary in carrying out job duties. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and other sedentary criteria are met. W ork Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week. Monday through Friday, between the hours of 7:15 am – 4:00 pm. Hours may vary based on the operational needs of the department. UW Health Administrative Facilities - UW Health has administrative locations throughout Madison and beyond where thousands of employees provide vital support to our clinical areas. These locations are home to departments such as Access Services, Compliance, Human Resources, Information Services, Patient Medical Records, Payroll and many others. Learn more about this opening UW Hospital and Clinics benefits UW Health values and embraces diversity and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.