CHPS case studies
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The Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security (CHPS®) credential is one of the certifications offered by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). AHIMA positions the CHPS credential alongside its Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDIP®) and Data Analytics (CHDA®) credentials, describing these as paths for professionals who already hold an HIM credential such as the RHIT or RHIA, or a coding credential, and who are ready to move into emerging areas of health information work involving information security, document integrity, and big data. The CHPS case studies are 4 cases and about 3,400 words.
1The Retention Schedule Nobody Owns
You are the newly hired privacy officer at a 600-employee regional insurer. During onboarding you discover the following: the records retention schedule was last revised in 2019, lists 41 record categories, and names an 'owner' for only 12 of them.
805 words, about 4 min2The Vendor That Changed Its Subcontractor
Your company uses a cloud analytics vendor to process customer behavioral data for a personalization feature. The contract includes a standard data processing addendum requiring notice before engaging a subprocessor and giving you a right to object.
811 words, about 4 min3The Access Request That Revealed a Bigger Problem
A customer emails asking for a copy of all data you hold about them and, in the same message, mentions that they were able to see another customer's order history in your portal last week after a page refresh. You are the privacy lead at a mid-size e-commerce company.
924 words, about 5 min4The Incident Tabletop That Found a Real Gap
You run a tabletop exercise for a 300-person healthcare-adjacent company that handles appointment scheduling and insurance eligibility checks. The scenario: a laptop with a spreadsheet of 4,200 patient names, dates of birth, and insurance member IDs is stolen from an employee's car.
860 words, about 4 min