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The purpose of this report is to identify the potential vulnerabilities and threats that might affect the system and the business processes. The health center is equip with free open source Health Information System, which needs tools and procedures to keep the system running and functioning as it intend to be. We will discuss the methods and technique that can be used to secure the network system by using encryption algorithm. Securing the health information system need to go through many steps in order to prevent any type of cyber attacks, by understanding the technique that hackers and attacker follows and by identifying the weak points in the system. Understanding the access control is the first step to secure any system, following
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The health information system is consist of data, hardware and software, which work together to ensure the safety of the system and the organization as well. Using information system in healthcare helps the organization to improve their productivities and decreasing the medical errors. Health information system is like any other systems, which might have potential threat and risks. However, information system risks, and attacks increased in past few years including the threats against health information system. There are many type of risk that may threat the system some are physical threat and other are threat by compromising the information system. The health information system might compromised in such threat like power failure, network failure, hardware or software failure, Malware attacks, human errors and communication failures. In order to secure the system the organization need to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information. Confidentiality means an unauthorized person cannot read the sensitive information; the system must provide the information only to the person how have the right to read. Integrity means the privacy of the information and this information should not be changed or deleted. Availability means the information must be available any time and under any …show more content…
The best practice in this regard is to control the access to the system, which means the employee should granted with the privilege that enough to do his job and not to give him all the right access, including the administration account for the computers that located in the 25 clinical rooms and 5 computer use for the patient appointment. Installing the monitoring system including CCTV in all the center facilities will reduce the physical threat and human errors. Malware threat is one of the most common risk in any system, were Malware can be in form of viruses, Trojan horse or worms. Malware are software that replicates itself in the system, these software can spread among the network to reach all the PCs in the same network. To prevent Malware we need to install fresh anti-viruses and maintain the application and network servers to block any type of intrusion virus. With the increasing of scanning tool all over the Internet, it becomes easy to scan and analyze the system. Hackers and attacker always find the way to access systems if they find any chance, there are many way of attacking systems, such as Dos, and social engineering.
The Operating System (OS) is the heart of computer server and client systems; therefore they are the pivotal components of the Information Technology (IT) architecture. The OS contains the crucial data, information, and applications, which are vulnerable, and can be infiltrated to cripple the entire IT architecture of the organization. Therefore, it becomes mandatory to properly safeguard the OS from an internal or external intrusion (Stallings & Brown, 2012). This critical thinking report will highlight the security concerns that may impact the OS. Further, the security guidelines and best practices for the OS in general, along with the specific fundamentals regarding the Windows and Linux OS are comprehensively illustrated.
The utilization of mobile devices and cloud computing in health organizations should be committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of protected health information and understanding the importance of keeping this information confidential and secure. The electronic health records and protected health information should be managed to ensure its security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability for authorized purposes. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) via the mobile devices and cloud computing should maintain a process to guarantee compliance with applicable provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). All members
Health care and health care information are turning to become unity and are working together to facilitate improvement of health care quality and equity. Therefore, health providers and other relevant stakeholders must strive to put in place strong measures capable of effecting heightened privacy and security precautions. More transparency must also be ensured when medical care organizations and institutions are handling patient’s medical data.
In the modern era, the use of computer technology is very important. Back in the day people only used handwriting on the pieces of paper to save all documents, either in general documents or medical records. Now this medical field is using a computer to kept all medical records or other personnel info. Patient's records may be maintained on databases, so that quick searches can be made. But, even if the computer is very important, the facility must remain always in control all the information they store in a computer. This is because to avoid individuals who do not have a right to the patient's information.
Learning Experience Journal Entry – Director of Health Information Management and the Supervisor of Medical Records Coder
The United States’ healthcare system is a three-trillion-dollar industry consisting of doctors, nurses, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment providers, and health insurers. With so many components and millions of patients to care for, fast efficient health information systems are needed to reduce cost, store and modify patient information, and administer quality care (Akowuah, Yuan, Xu, Wang, 2012, pg. 40). Although health information systems have helped increase the healthcare industry’s efficiency and effectiveness, it has also exposed millions of patient’s identities and medical records to cyber-attacks. Managers in the healthcare field should be aware of cyberattacks, the laws that protect and secure patient’s privacy,
The privacy and security of the health information exchange can be further improved by monitoring access to the electronic records, increasing physician knowledge and awar...
The debate is still going on today about what can and cannot be done legitimately with patients health information. There are worries about who should be able to access the patient’s information and for what reasons do they have to be accessing the patient’s health information. While on the other side there is an increasing need for performance assessments, efficient health guard, and a proficient administration for more and better information. Health care services are now starting to realize that they have a lot of work to do to be in compliance with the current health laws on the state and federal level guidelines when it comes to dealing with protecting patient data.
There is constant concern about different kinds of devices and tools because of their vulnerability: laptops; personal computers in the home; libraries and public workstations; USB Flash Drives and email, to name a few. These items are easily accessible for those attempting to breach security.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Health information management involves the practice of maintaining and taking care of health records in hospitals, health insurance companies and other health institutions, by the use of electronic means (McWay 176). Storage of medical information is carried out by health information management and HIT professionals using information systems that suit the needs of these institutions. This paper answers four major questions concerning health information systems.
The current digital era brought about multiple changes in the Healthcare industry that have led to multiple advances in patient-care. As time progresses, Moore’s law takes effect, in which systems and procedures become outdated, due to the new developments and advances in technology that are coming about rapidly and changing legislative and regulations. The healthcare industry is facing ever-changing threats/challenges with Health Information Exchange (HIE) and must continually improve security measures in place to combat patient data-breach attempts or mismanagement of patient health information (PHI). Thus, healthcare providers must make every effort possible to stay current with changes occurring, by updating old technology and improving
Enhance network security of the EHR system will reduce the risk of cyber-attacks. Encrypt data when sending and receiving data from external systems will ensure that the patients’ medical records only be available to the right parties. In addition to security implementation, the facility should also provide training classes or information sessions to the employees to inform them about the importance of patients’ medical records, the business process for accessing and retrieving the records, the pros versus cons of medical records leakage, and the potential consequences. Structured business processes will prevent human errors on exposing medical records. Knowledge from the information sessions or trainings will reduce the risk of any potential internal theft on data now that the employees know the pros and cons of their actions.
Having a background in Information Technology and network security, I find the concept of contingency plans to be very intriguing. In the health care field, data is especially sensitive as it contains all personal patient information. Being that this sensitive data is widespread throughout the health care system; contingency plans prove to be an ideal asset to the field. They provide the security which is undoubtedly needed in order to maintain the integrity of the data. Additionally they aid in sustaining patient satisfaction, as well as overall quality of care.
Question 1: Describe and diagram the existing process for reporting and identifying major public health problems, such as a flu pandemic.