Explore healthcare GDPR governance, ISO 27001 information security, ISO 31000 risk management, incident response, data sharing and strategic health data compliance.
The GDPR in Healthcare with ISO 31000 & ISO 27001 Interfaces - Version A course explores how health data privacy, information security and risk management connect within healthcare environments. It provides learners with a structured understanding of GDPR governance alongside the ISO 27001 information security framework and ISO 31000 risk management principles.
The course begins with the foundations of health data privacy and core governance under GDPR. It then considers information security, healthcare risk management, incident management, breaches and enforcement.
Learners will also examine healthcare research, data sharing and cross-border challenges before considering how these areas can be brought together through strategic integration. The final module looks towards future trends affecting healthcare data protection, information security and organisational risk.
This course can support professionals who want to strengthen their understanding of how privacy, security and risk-management frameworks interact in healthcare settings.
7 sections
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36 lectures
Understand the evolution of healthcare data protection.
Explain GDPR’s global impact on privacy law.
Identify special category health, genetic, and biometric data.
Describe the ethical foundations of consent and patient self-determination.
Compare GDPR with HIPAA and LGPD frameworks.
Understand GDPR’s Core Principles
Identify Lawful Bases for Processing
Recognise Key Patient Rights
Grasp Accountability and Documentation
Distinguish Roles and Responsibilities
Understand ISMS and ISO 27001 in Healthcare
Explore ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Clauses
Grasp Key Annex A Controls
Connect GDPR Article 32 to ISO 27001
Introduction to ISO 27701
Understand ISO 31000 Principles
Describe the Healthcare Risk Management Process
Identify Risks in Health Data Processing
Apply DPIAs in Healthcare
Map DPIAs to the ISO 31000 Cycle
Evaluate and Treat Data Risks
Understand GDPR’s 72-hour breach notification rule, which requires organisations to report certain types of personal data breaches to the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach.
Outline ISO 27001’s approach to incident response planning, focusing on establishing procedures for identifying, reporting, and managing information security incidents effectively.
Describe the role of forensics and logging in accountability, highlighting how proper evidence collection and activity monitoring support investigations and demonstrate compliance.
Draw lessons from real-world enforcement cases to understand common pitfalls and best practices in incident management and regulatory compliance.
Recognise how risk transfer strategies, such as insurance and contractual agreements, can support organisational resilience by mitigating the financial and operational impacts of incidents.
Understand GDPR requirements for clinical trials and research.
Explain rules for biobanking and secondary data use.
Evaluate the balance between public health interests and individual rights.
Identify requirements for cross-border healthcare data transfers.
Describe anonymisation, pseudonymisation, and emerging privacy-enhancing technologies.
Build a Unified Compliance Framework
Embed Data Protection into Healthcare Culture
Identify Training Pathways for Key Roles
Explore Emerging Technology Challenges
Prepare for Future Regulatory Trends
straightforward and useful. not too long, and the recap points helped the important information stick. In the GDPR in Healthcare with ISO 31000 & ISO 27001 Interfaces course, the sequence of topics worked well for me.
properly useful training, especially if you need the basics explained in normal language. I picked up several points I can use straight away. I would have valued an extra integrated risk-register example.
This course is suitable for healthcare managers, governance staff, data protection professionals, information security teams and others involved in health data oversight.
The course begins with foundational health data privacy concepts, but its coverage of GDPR governance, ISO frameworks and strategic integration makes it most suitable for learners with some existing workplace or compliance awareness.
Yes. One module focuses on information security and the ISO 27001 framework within the wider context of healthcare data governance.
Yes. The curriculum includes risk management in healthcare with ISO 31000, alongside incident management, breaches and enforcement.
No. This course provides general training and educational information only. It does not provide legal advice, certify learners against an ISO standard or certify an organisation’s management systems.