Enhancing Information Security Awareness among Healthcare Providers   Goal: To help healthcare practitioners and organizations prepare for HIPAA compliance. Summary: Developing methods for enhancing awareness of sound information security policies and practices has emerged as a major theme of our team’s work.We have collaborated with many organizations to produce three major efforts, namely 1.“Building a Security Capable Organization” workshop at the PACMED Tek Conference, August 1998 in Honolulu, Hawaii.Jeff Collmann Ph.D (Georgetown University Medical Center) and Anna-Lisa Silvestre, (Kaiser Permanente Health Plan) introduced the concept of a security capable organization illustrating general principles with cases studies from Project Phoenix and Kaiser Permanente’s health information security program. You may review the text of the PACMedNet workshop “Building a Security Capable Organization - Text” You may also review the Powerpoint slides of the workshop “Building a Security Capable Organization – Slides” 2.The CPRI Toolkit: Managing Information Security in Health Care, edited by Jeff Collmann, Ted Cooper,Barbara Demster, Keith MacDonald, Susan Odneal, Jeanne Reiners, articulates a systematic approach to securely management health information drawing case studies, examples and samples from a range of health care providers across the United States.Using this Toolkit, healthcare providers can build an information security program and thus potentially comply with pending HIPAA regulations and federal medical privacy legislation. You can order a copy of the CPRI Toolkit at http://www.cpri.org. 3.“Privacy, Security and Confidentiality of Medical Records: complying with strict new HIPAA regulations.”, a series of seminars jointly sponsored by the Computer-based Patient Record Institute and the Friends of the National Library, introduces an approach to complying with pending HIPAA regulations using CPRI Toolkit: Managing Information Security in Health Care as the central text.A series of nine seminars occurred during the spring of 1999.A second series ofseminars will occur in five cities during the winter and spring of 2000. To obtain information about the seminar series go to: http://www.nonprofitmgt.com/privacy.