Meet the Authors | HIPAA Update

Meet the Authors

	Dom Nicastro Dom Nicastro is a senior managing editor for HCPro, Inc.’s revenue cycle division. He manages HIPAA Update, the Patient Access Resource Center and develops training, management, and compliance products for the company’s Revenue Cycle and HIPAA teams. Dom also writes HIPAA and finance columns for HealthLeaders Media’s Web site. Dom is the former editor of the Gloucester Daily Times, where he led the paper to the New England News Association Newspaper of the Year in 2005 and a runner-up for the same award by the New England Press Association in 2007. He also won three New England awards for his sportswriting.
	Kate Borten, CISSP, CISM Kate Borten, CISSP, CISM, is president of The Marblehead Group, providing privacy and security assessments, regulatory compliance audits, and program development guidance to clients across the healthcare industry. Borten provides a unique combination of expertise in information security, privacy, and IT from over twenty years inside healthcare. She is a nationally-recognized expert on HIPAA and health information privacy and security, and a frequent speaker on these topics. Borten is the former head of the enterprise-wide security program at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also the author of HIPAA Security Made Simple (HCPro, Inc. 2003) and other publications for HCPro, and four-year chair of HealthSec, the premier annual conference on information security in healthcare.
	John Parmigiani, MS, BES John Parmigiani, MS, BES, is the president of John C. Parmigiani & Associates, LLC. Mr. Parmigiani has more than 35 years experience in information systems management in both the public and private sectors. The former Director of Enterprise Standards for the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), he was the chairman of the government-wide HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security and Electronic Signature Standards Implementation Team that created the Security Rule and was a member of the federal committee that oversaw the development and implementation of the HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets and the Privacy Rule.
	Chris Apgar, CISSP Chris Apgar, CISSP, is president of Apgar & Associates, LLC in Portland, OR, an independent consulting firm specializing security, privacy, regulatory compliance; electronic health information exchange; global and detailed business process review; information systems project development; and lobbyist activity. Apgar is a nationally recognized information security, privacy and HIPAA expert, is a member of the Workgroup for Electronic Interchange (WEDI) Board of Directors and is a member of the team working with the US Department of Health & Human Services and the State of Oregon to develop national privacy & security standards to assist in confidential and efficient electronic health record exchange.
	Rebecca Herold, CISSP, CIPP, CISA, CISM, FLMI Rebecca Herold, “The Privacy Professor”® is a world-renowned information security and privacy authority. Herold provides guidance to organizations of all sizes – across the globe and across industries. She has received numerous accolades, including “2007 and 2008 Best Privacy Advisor” by Computerworld and 2007’s “Top 59 Influencers in IT Security” by IT Security magazine. The information security and privacy program Herold created for a multi-national healthcare insurer and financial company received the CSI “Security Program of the Year” award in 1997. Herold, working on her 14th book, co-authored the acclaimed book “The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance.” Herold publishes “Protecting Information” (a multimedia information security and privacy journal), and offers multiple training resources. She is an Adjunct Professor for Norwich University’s Master of Science in Information Assurance program. You may contact Herold directly at rebeccaherold@rebeccaherold.com or www.theprivacyprofessor.com.