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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The General Counsel's Office manages the Boston Public Health Commission's legal department and ensures its compliance with state and federal laws and regulations. This work includes, but is not limited to, ensuring compliance with HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and other applicable privacy laws and regulations, as well as the Commission's HIPAA Privacy Policy.

Please describe the internship project:

The intern will assist the Privacy Officer and other attorneys in the General Counsel's Office with day-to-day compliance activities, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and other privacy laws and regulations, and the Commission's Privacy Policy and other internal policies. This will include assisting the Privacy Officer on the Commission's biennial HIPAA risk assessment and liaising with bureaus and programs across the Commission to help complete the assessment and comply with HIPAA requirements. Intern duties may also include research, analysis and writing for briefs on relevant privacy and/or compliance-related topics, and assisting on Commission privacy trainings.

Please describe the internship learning outcomes:

• The intern will also gain familiarity with how a corporate compliance progarm works for a public health entity / HIPAA covered entity like BPHC and assisted in the commission's privacy training program.
• By the end of the internship, the intern should be familiar with common aspects of HIPAA compliance, including the provisions of the HIPAA Privacy and Security rules that apply to BPHC. The intern will have assisted in a HIPAA risk assessment and made recommendations to the Privacy Officer on how bureaus and programs across the commission are complying with HIPAA and BPHC policies.

Minimum Qualifications

Additional Information

A Criminal Offenders Records Information request must be completed for this position. However, a record is not an automatic bar to employment but is reviewed in relation to the job applied for., The Boston Public Health Commission is an EEO Employer and all applicants meeting the minimum requirements are eligible to apply