Healthy Body Wellness Center (HBWC) Office of Grants Giveaway (OGG) promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of medical grants through federally supported research, evaluation, and sharing of information. The OGG distributes a variety of medical grants disbursed to small hospitals in a rotational basis using the Small Hospital Grant Tracking System (SHGTS). Scope Statement The information security management systems scope applies to HBWC and OGG business locations and resources, it extends to all employees, vendor, partners and contractors who may use or access its information systems assets. A1: Business Objective: Healthy Body Wellness Center (HBWC) Office of Grants Giveaway (OGG) are seeking to address security controls used to protect the confidentiality, integrity, …show more content…
availability, and accountability of the automated Small Hospital Grant Tracking System (SHGTS). A2: Security Principle ISO-27001 defined security framework will be the core of security principle to meet the security objectives i.e. confidentiality, integrity and availability of information systems. By prohibiting unauthorized access to information systems, guiding against unauthorized modification or deletion of data and providing timely and reliable access to network resources. A3: Processes included in the scope Using the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) process of ISMS that offers four categories, plan development, plan implementation, plan verification and plan improvement. The plan development will include ISO-27001 guidelines and FIPS OMB Circular No. A-130 requirements and carefully implemented by qualified and trained security professionals. Verification of the plan should be carried out by performing security assessment and improve on the plan to meet adequacy of the management, technical, and operational security controls. A4: Information systems included in the scope The scope will include all network resources covered in the management, operational and technical security control class as defined in FIPS 199 impact level and system boundaries. This will include general support systems including: • LAN – Switches and hubs • Backbone – Routers and firewalls • Communication network – Phone and IP phones • Agency data processing center including its operating systems and utilities • Tactical radio network • Shared information processing service facilities. (Swanson, Hash, & Bowen, 2006) A5: IT infrastructure that includes a description of information flow Small Hospital Grant Tracking System (SHGTS) is public facing and allowing grant seeker access to use at least some part of the system, the information provided by these outside entities are processed, analyzed and reported to Office of Grants Giveaway (OGG) executives. The information flows into the organization using its public interface and sent to the database, where the data will be logged and processed. Office of Grants Giveaway (OGG) staffs also access information from the tracking system database and does have option to connect to the server via VPN. Recommend additional steps that the organization would need to take to implement ISMS plan.
B1. Discuss what each recommended step entails. The organization will need to employ an experienced security professional that will be able to effectively implement ISMS plans, and follow the continuous PDCA model for continuous review and improvement of ISMS plan. Security and vulnerability assessment can be performed in house on a regular basis and when a system change or updates are applied. And use a third party to perform additional risk assessment. B2. Justify each recommended step. Information Security Management System (ISMS) plan offers a systematic process for designing, implementing, maintaining, and auditing an organization’s information system security objectives using Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) process. If a qualified security professional is not employed to continually monitor and review ISMS plan, its effectiveness will tend to deteriorate. And constant security and vulnerability assessment, using scanners from different vendors will efficiently aid the security professional to proactively discover threats and mitigate it because attacker exploits the
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I wanted to give you guys a more detail explanation about the opportunity at Children's Hospital. AltaMed Body Works Clinic has a 7-week nutrition program for overweight or obese children to attend with their parents. As families are being weight/measured and seen by a pediatrician, we will be preparing our material to teach with Dr. Kreutzer (RD) the nutrition curriculum part of the program. We can teach either the parents or the kids. I personally would prefer the kids curriculum since it's a bit easier, but we can decide that later as a group.
Direct Observation during access to food. Settings varied but study was conducted over 28 days.
...explains and clarifies key provisions of the medical privacy regulation, this is a reliable source of information which was published last December (HIPAA, 1996). Guaranteeing the accuracy, security and protecting the privacy of all medical information is crucial and an ongoing challenge for many organizations.
Patient Centered care is a concept where the healthcare providers stand in the patient’s position and think about how the patients want to be treated before navigating into how they themselves want to continue with the procedure. It is a strong commitment for the healthcare personnel to be able to manage and regard the patients as thinking and feeling people with the potential to develop and adjust. Thus, the healthcare team needs to be compatible, open-minded and courteous in order to provide the best care possible for the patients.
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.
D.P. receives an abundance of support in her life. She finds most of her motivation from her family because family means the world to her. The members in her family will encourage her to do her best along with attending diabetic information groups. She finds the support and motivation from her family to be a great way to help deal with her diabetes. Other family members who have diabetes or know someone else with diabetes helps her realize that this is not necessarily an ending of freedom or her life. The health care professionals also have an impact on D.P.’s motivational level as they give her options and techniques to improve her ways of living in order to cope with diabetes. Fox and Chesla (2008) see the positive inspirational outcome a
HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was put in place by the Federal Government for several reasons; better portability of health insurance for employees, to prevent fraud and abuse within the healthcare delivery system, and simplification of administrative functions associated with healthcare delivery (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Due to sensitive healthcare information being shared federal regulations were also put into place, resulting in the “Privacy Rule” and “Security Rule”. The Privacy Rule limits the use and disclosure of patient information. The Security Rule protects the patients’ healthcare information from improper use or disclosure, to maintain information integrity, and ensure its availability (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Both regulations apply to protected health information (PHI) which is any form of health information that can be used to identify an individual patient. Practitioners who refer to HIPPA are not referring to the act itself but the “Privacy Rule” and “Security Rule” (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). It is extremely important to understand these concepts as a student in the clinical setting and how each hospital enforces these concepts. Before starting at any clinical site there is an extensive orientation about HIPPA regarding what is appropriate and not appropriate when it comes to patient information and the repercussions of violating HIPPA. In this paper I will discuss Akron General’s rules and policies regarding their EHR, PHI, EPHI, and social media.
It is best to prevent security incidents from occurring in the first place – therefore prevention should be a top priority for the IT staff at CEG. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommends five main categories of incident prevention; risk assessments, host security, network security, malware prevention, and user awareness training (Cichonski P., Grance T., Millar T., & Scarfone K., 2012 p.24). Risks of the various types of possible security incidents should be identified and prioritized based on likelihood and potential harm. Risk assessment should be periodic and ongoing. Host security is achieved by hardening each host on the network. Host hardening includes keeping current on the latest software patches, enabling and monitoring audit logs, and assigning permissions based on a system of least privilege. Network security is primarily concerned with securing the perimeter of the network to prevent unauthorized intrusion. This includes the use of firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), securing VPN, and blocking unnecessary ports. All hosts on the network must run and regularly update malware protection software. And all employees should...
Williams, Patricia AH. (2013) Does the PCEHR mean a new paradigm for information security? : Implications for health information managemen [online]. Health Information Management Journal, 42 (2). pp. 31-36. Availability: ISSN: 1833-3583. [Cited 09 Apr 14].
As someone who is in charge of the wellness program here at UIW, my job is to oversee all the aspects and find out what needs amending or implementation. There are six dimensions of wellness and each one has their benefits. The purpose is to take a look at each dimension of wellness and try to make some improvements for the staff and students.
This paper discusses three risk analysis methodologies, specifically, MSRAM, OCTAVE, and CRAMM and provides a detailed description of each and how they incorporate risk into a platform for decision makers to use in their endeavors to prevent, protect, mitigate, respond, and in recovery measures as part of the risk assessment and management processes.
Principle of Security Management by Brian R. Johnson, Published by Prentice-Hall copyright 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Whitman, M. & Mattord, H. (2010). Mangement of information security. (p. 339). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
A critical part of network planning involves setting up of security mechanisms. Deploying the network with security configuration provides superior visibility, continuous control and advanced threat protection across the extended network. Additionally, security procedures define policies to monitor the network for securing critical data, obtain visibility, mitigate threats, identify and correlate discrepancies.
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.