Your father has a private retail pharmacy in a small rural town.
Information Systems Governance
Wk 3 – Compliance [due Mon]
Wk 3 – Compliance [due Mon]
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Your father has a private retail pharmacy in a small rural town. He accepts credit cards and holds customer information on a small database server. He wants to know if he should be concerned about PCI compliance, as well as HIPAA, and has asked you for a summary so he can decide if he wants to hire an outside consultant to help him comply with government regulations.
Write a 3- to 4-page summary in Microsoft® Word of the important aspect of PCI and HIPAA regulations to help him make his decision.
In your summary:
Accurately describe what PCI is and why it is important to a small business.
Explain why a small business needs to comply with PCI.
Provide at least two reasons.
Concisely describe who is covered under HIPAA.
List the information protected under HIPAA.
List the administrative requirements under HIPAA.
Outline the ramifications of noncompliance to a small business.
Provide two examples.
Cite all sources using APA guidelines.
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