System Security and Ease of Use
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Select a type of health care organization, such as an outpatient clinic, nursing home, or hospital, and a specific department or function in this setting, such as a nursing unit, radiology department, or admissions, which would make use of sensitive health data.
Then write an abstract and a 2-3 page paper on the following:
• Describe key challenges for your selected health care department in ensuring that its sensitive data are secure. Illustrate with specific examples, and address not only technological issues but also human factors involved in ensuring its system security.
• What are some implications of security breaches of its health care data? Who might be impacted and how?
• Summarize security measures that might be taken as well as their potential impact on the staff's ease of use of the information system.
• Explain what you believe is the appropriate balance between data security and ease of use.
All reference information must be peer reviewed and no more than three years old in APA format.
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Security starts at admissions, but can't end after discharge. Academic Journal (English) By: Morper M, Journal Of AHIMA / American Health Information Management Association [J AHIMA], ISSN: 1060-5487, 2014 Nov-Dec; Vol. 85 (11), pp. 54-5;
Select a type of health care organization, such as an outpatient clinic, nursing home, or hospital, and a specific department or function in this setting, such as a nursing unit, radiology department, or admissions, which would make use of sensitive health data.
Then write an abstract and a 2-3 page paper on the following:
• Describe key challenges for your selected health care department in ensuring that its sensitive data are secure. Illustrate with specific examples, and address not only technological issues but also human factors involved in ensuring its system security.
The specific department that will be focused is hospital admissions. The admissions processes in hospitals suffers key challenges and vulnerabilities in reference to potential HIPAA violations involving patient data. Therefore, it's imperative for hospitals to develop systems and policies that can ensure the security vulnerabilities and potential compliance problems inherent with hospitals' admissions are addressed. To attempt to ensure that their hospital is capable of preventing their patient data from becoming compromised, the hospital must first understand the vulnerabilities that are faced by their admissions process, which also must include conducting risk ...
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