Introduction
The Healthy Body Wellness Center requires an Information Security Management System (ISMS), in order to implement a plan to maintain and audit the company 's information system security objectives. This necessitated outlining the scope of the ISMS plan as well as an evaluation of the risk assessment conducted by We Test Everything LLC (WTE). We Test Everything LLC was contracted by the Healthy Body Wellness Center 's (HBWC) Office of Grants Giveaway (OGG) to provide a risk assessment of the Small Hospital Grant Tracking System (SHGTS).
Business Objectives
The HBWC business objectives should be included in the Information Security Management System (ISMS) as this document will represent the organizations approach in designing, implementing, and auditing the company 's information system security objectives. In order for the ISMS to be applicable and appropriate to the organization, an examination of the business objectives of the company is required. This step is necessary to understand the needs to the organization when designing these objectives.
The Healthy Body Wellness Center 's (HBWC) Office of Grants Giveaway (OGG) provides medical grants to hospitals and facilities. The company 's mission is to promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of medical grants through federally supported research, evaluation, and sharing of information. As part of fulfilling the businesses objectives of the HBWC OGG has contracted with We Automate Anything (WAA) to design and implement the Small Hospital Tracking System (SHGTS). The SHGTS is vital in the current functioning of the OGG as part of the HBWCs mission statement, and allows for the monitoring and distribution of grant funds. The SHGTS also functions to coll...
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... should be included at this phase is that the management will review and produce implementation guides for implementing improvements.
• Act - In this phase ISMS improvements are implemented. Continuous monitoring of the process will ensure process improvement. o Processes for this phase will include, implementing improvements that were identified in the check phase
At this stage you would then continue the process, as the PDCA will ensure the ISMS continues to evolve to meet the HBWC 's needs. Deliverables at this stage would include an audit checklist, and results from an internal audit.
Implementing the PDCA will ensure quality and performance of the operational security control methods. Benefits of implementing the PDCA include improved security posture, improved security planning, ongoing protection, manageable auditing, and a reduced liability of information.
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Cornerstone is a practice management software that provides a paperless method to input, acquire and save patient medical records electronically. Through Cornerstone's paperless software you are able to schedule and manage appointments, monitor patient care, administer medications and treatments, as well as keep note of procedures and results including lab results and diagnostic imaging. In addition, the software also creates an itemized bill as medications and procedures are prescribed. Cornerstone also offers inventory control and measures a practice's workflow, thereby allowing the practice to measure and compare their performance with previous years.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Risk Management Guide for Information Technology Systems. Special Publication 800-30, 2002.
The federal government has taken a stance to standardized care by creating incentive programs that are mandated under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) of 2009. This act encourages healthcare providers and healthcare institutions to adopt Meaningful use in order to receive incentives from Medicare and Medicaid. Meaningful use is the adoption of a certified health record system that acquires or obtains specified objectives about a patient. The objectives or measures are considered gold standard practices with the EHR system. Examples of the measures include data entry of vital signs, demographics, allergies, entering medical orders, providing patients with electronic copies of their records, and many more pertinent information regarding the patient (Friedman et al, 2013, p.1560).
Administrative Mandates, including the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010, are all part of administrative simplification and the need for systems optimiza...
...arations needed during implementation of the project while the final phase is meant for overall evaluation.
Ensure that effective measurements and monitoring mechanisms are in place to determine whether implemented solutions have yielded predicted benefits and to drive continuous process improvement.
8. Identify methods for evaluating outcomes of your plan and next steps/revisions of the plan, depending on various possible
...o identify any problems in the Quality management system and make suggestions of any actions that need to be taken to improve the laboratory system.
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Monitoring, Review and Revision of Plan - ensures that it remains current. In addition, the monitoring process is backed up by full managerial accountability for the success of the plan.
Lastly, this stage looks at how ideas come to life through production. Therefore, implementation must ensure that design details are put into effect and that the client is satisfied with the final product.
The first thing that we must consider about Information Security is that there is not a final destination at which we can arrive. IT Security is an ongoing set of processes and activities that requires attention and expertise on a daily basis. It is important to understand that systems are not secured by themselves and it is our responsibility to maintain and improve them periodically as required. It is of vital importance to establish the appropriate mechanisms and requirements in order to support the company’s CIA triad. The following report will provide you guidance about auditing and hardening techniques applied though the 7 Domains by utilizing IT Security Best Practices.