Meet Your Instructor, Steve Spearman
Steve Spearman has been in the health information technology industry for over 26 years where he began in capital software sales in the electronic health record industry. Steve is a sought after information security executive, speaker and expert on HIPAA, compliance, information security program development and information security frameworks and has spoken to 1000’s of participants from the podium, webinars and as the founding host of the HIPAA Chat podcast.
Steve was the founder of a Health Tech consultancy Health Security Solutions in 2012 which he sold in 2016 to Healthicity. He has served as the VP of Professional Services at a Health Tech company and as the Chief Information Security Officer for a health tech Cancer Analytics firms.
As an outside consultant, Steve has helped create, develop and run dozens of information security programs in both the health care provider space as well as for 3rd party software and service vendors.
Steve spoke on “Assessing the Risks of Your Medical Devices” at the 2016 HIMSS conference in Las Vegas, was a speaker and panelist at the Healthcon conference for medical coders and has conducted dozens of webinars attended by 1000’s of participants. Steve was member of the HIMSS Risk Assessment Working Group from 2013 to 2017.
Steve is certified by the (ISC)2 as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Practitioner (HCISPP).