Inforum's HealthcareNEXT Virtual Event

VIRTUAL STREAMING EVENT

Protecting Healthcare Data: Insights from Industry Leaders

Join us on October 17 for an insightful event on Cybersecurity in Healthcare Organizations. With the increasing complexity and significance of data protection in the healthcare sector, this discussion could not be more timely. We are honored to have Jack Kufahl, Chief Information Security Officer at Michigan Medicine, deliver the keynote address. Following his presentation, Jack will be joined by an esteemed panel including Dawn Geisert, Chief Integrity and Compliance Officer at Trinity Health, and Adrienne Chase, Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer at Logan Health, to discuss the evolving challenges and best practices in healthcare compliance, privacy, and cybersecurity. 

Speakers

Jack Kufahl is chief information security officer for Michigan Medicine, has spent the last eight years starting and progressing the Information Assurance program for Michigan Medicine, the first formal information security program for one of the leading academic medical centers. In 2022, he expanded the program to include affiliated hospital UM Health West. He also helped incorporate and is a board director of Michigan Healthcare Cybersecurity Council, which has a mission within the state and sector to actively coordinate and support cybersecurity efforts in service to our government agencies, our parent institutions, and our community.

Adrienne Chase has an extensive background in healthcare compliance, ethics, risk management, auditing, and privacy. For nearly two decades, she has been committed to safeguarding patient and organizational healthcare data, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing enterprise risk, and enhancing organizational culture within health systems. Chase holds an Executive Juris Doctorate (EJD) with a specialization in Healthcare Law and Compliance. She is currently certified in Healthcare Compliance and Healthcare Privacy through the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) and attended the FBI Compliance Officer Academy through the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), where she also earned a Compliance and Ethics certificate.

Adrienne began her healthcare career in social work, clinical case management, and utilization review within a clinical setting. She has served as an Incident Commander at a health system, successfully navigating a ransomware event that resulted in several weeks of downtime. Most recently, she held the position of Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer at a healthcare organization that underwent a Corporate Integrity Agreement monitored by the Office of Inspector General, as well as several Office for Civil Rights Security Rule investigations. Currently, she serves in an advisory leadership role, focusing on Governance, Risk, and Compliance.

Dawn Geisert, JD, CHC, is the senior vice president (SVP) and chief integrity & compliance officer, for Trinity Health. Geisert provides leadership and direction to Trinity Health's system-wide Integrity and Compliance and internal audit programs. Geisert joined Trinity Health in June 2021. Prior to that she served as senior vice president and chief compliance officer for Beaumont Health (now Corewell Health). There, Dawn’s role included Enterprise Risk Management, Information Security, Internal Audit and Accreditation support programs. Before joining Beaumont, she served at Henry Ford Health System as chief compliance officer for Health Alliance Plan. Dawn started her career with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network of Michigan.

Geisert earned her Juris Doctorate from the Michigan State University College of Law, a Master of Science in General Administration from Central Michigan University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Michigan. Dawn is also a Board of Director member for the Michigan Healthcare Cybersecurity Council.

EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday, Oct. 17
Time: 8-9:30 a.m. 
Place: Virtual link will be sent to stream 24 hours before
Tickets: $15 members, $25 nonmembers (guests)

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HealthcareNEXT is for Inforum members who want to stay ahead of health care’s next curve, trend, opportunity or insight. The group is focused on sharing knowledge, increasing understanding of key health care issues, and offering unique professional development and relationship-building opportunities for health care providers and health plans, the payer community, educators, consultants, attorneys and other experts who routinely work in health care.