Formulate a secure storage and retrieval process for healthcare data.
HI300-4: Formulate a secure storage and retrieval process for healthcare data.
GEL-1.02: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.
Assignment Directions:
You have been hired as the director of HIT for a new medium healthcare facility. As part of your role, you are tasked with creating a security plan that evaluates how you would approach security threats from both inside and outside the organization. You will write a memo to the chief security officer sharing your recommendations on the following items:
Critique the current state of the healthcare facility by identifying three potential risks to ePHI that were discovered when you completed a risk assessment.
Recommend three physical safeguards (i.e., workstation access, facility access, device and media controls)
Recommend three administrative safeguards (i.e., employee education, contingency planning, security incident procedures, how and who you would communicate with in the event of a crisis)
Recommend three technical safeguards (i.e., access control, audit controls, cloud computing, firewalls, encryption/decryption)
Recommend three best practices to protect and secure information when using mobile devices.
As a reference, you may want to visit the following websites:
References:
HHS (n.d.). HIPAA privacy, security, and breach notification audit program: United States department of health & human services. http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/enforcement/audit/index.html
Health IT. (n.d.). Health IT playbook – Section 7: privacy and security. https://www.healthit.gov/playbook/privacy-and-security/#section-7-3
Requirements:
The memo should be 1–2 pages in length, prepared in a Microsoft Word document, and APA-formatted. Use of a bulleted list is recommended within the memo.
Include a title page and reference page. Length requirements do not include the title page, and the reference page.
Follow APA style format and citation guidelines, including Times New Roman 12 point font and double spacing.
This Assignment should follow the conventions of Standard English featuring correct grammar, punctuation, style, and mechanics.
Include at least two references. All sources must be scholarly. Wikipedia is not acceptable. Use APA style for all citations including course materials.
Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
Minimum Submission Requirements
Proper notification of any resubmission, repurposing, or reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.
Your memo should include the following:
Critique the current state of the healthcare facility by identifying three potential risks to ePHI that were discovered when you completed a risk assessment.
Recommend three physical safeguards (i.e., workstation access, facility access, device and media controls)
Recommend three administrative safeguards (i.e., employee education, contingency planning, security incident procedures, how and who you would communicate with in the event of a crisis)
Recommend three technical safeguards (i.e., access control, audit controls, cloud computing, firewalls, encryption/decryption)
Recommend three best practices to protect and secure information when using mobile devices.
The memo should be 1–2 pages in length, prepared in a Microsoft Word document, and APA-formatted. Use of a bulleted list is recommended within the memo.
Include a title page and reference page. Length requirements do not include the title page, and the reference page.
Follow APA style format and citation guidelines, including Times New Roman 12 point font and double spacing.
This Assignment should follow the conventions of Standard English featuring correct grammar, punctuation, style, and mechanics.
Include at least two references. All sources must be scholarly. Wikipedia is not acceptable. Use APA style for all citations including course materials.
Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
If the work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned for revision. If the work submitted does not meet the minimum submission requirements by the end of the term, you will receive a failing score.
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