Impact Of Legislation On Vanderbilt University Medical Center

The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 and its revised version S.3414 addressed several cyber security needs, which have been often overlooked or opposed. The nation stands vulnerable to cyber-attacks, as everyday technology is revamped and upgraded, while laws to protect the nation creep slowly through Congress. Many politicians have argued that these bills have imposed too much regulation on the cyber world and therefor oppose it (CITATION NEEDED). Congress needs to pass laws and regulations if they wish to help protect the nation from the growing threat of cyber-attacks, which can easily cripple the United States from across the globe. The Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Report reveals that the threat of cybercrime is a growing concern.

Currently, the College of Osteopathic Medicine department at Nova Southeastern University offers multiple clinical services that are open to the public. Here patients have the opportunity to establish care and get treated by doctors. These clinics also help students to learn and experience firsthand what it takes to become a doctor. The students are able to work alongside the doctors, and have one on one encounters with the patients. The main clinics are located at the Sanford L. Ziff center; the clinics currently available are Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Family Medicine, Optometry, and Dental. From Monday to Friday the clinics operate from 8AM to 5:30PM, except for Family Medicine which on Tuesdays and Thursdays provide a night clinic service, from 5pm to 7pm and a weekend clinic on Saturdays from 8am to 12pm. Nova Southeastern University relies heavily on its faculty and staff help manage and operate these clinics. There are over 350 employees currently working in this department. Employees here learn to provide excellent customer service, to learn how to deal and verify health insurances, to help and keep up to date with accounts receivables and accounts payable. It is presumably

H.R. 1731, the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement (NCPA) Act, is bipartisan bill passed unanimously by the Committee on Homeland Security. This pro-privacy, pro-security bill ensures the sharing of cyber threats is transparent and timely. It strengthens the NCCIC’s role as the lead civilian interface for cyber threat information sharing by: Providing liability protections for the voluntary sharing of cyber threat indicators and defensive measures with the NCCIC or private-to-private. Granting liability protections for private companies to conduct network awareness of their own information systems. Allowing companies to operate defensive measures and conduct network awareness on information systems they own or operate. The NCPA Act also ensures personal information

The issue of strong cybersecurity efforts in the United States has been especially topical in 2017, and on the rise over the last few years. The Equifax breach and the breaching of the Democratic Party during the 2016 Presidential Election are recent examples that are bringing up the conversation of cybersecurity and make citizens curious of whether or not the United States government has plans in place to deter these events from happening. People are already worried about the damages these attacks can cause with consequences such as stolen information or monetary loss of close to five billion dollars in 2017 alone (cybersecurityventures.com). Although there are already solid plans in place to raise cybersecurity efforts in the United

Virginia Mason Medical Center Case Study Review By: Victoria Brainerd Virginia Mason Medical Center was in need of an operational overhaul. Employee morale was the lowest it had ever been and a new strategy was being established but they needed a system to make it happen. Virginia Mason Medical Center’s highly collaborative nature made each of their operational departments extremely interdependent, which made predicting each of their respective in and out flows difficult. Even further, new research had been published – focusing on the level of errors in hospitals leading to patient illness and death.

The Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a distinguished and successful hospital with 875 staffed beds, 51,000 admissions this year, and nationally ranked in 13 different specialties. With over 1900 specialized physicians and more than 7000 total employees, Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a prominent figure in the medical community. Not only is it ranked 8th in the nation by Newsweek, it is also a very successful hospital as it garners over 4 million dollars in patient revenue. It is mainly an academic oriented hospital, focused on providing a substantial education for members of Northwestern School of Feinberg Medicine, and general medical and surgical care for patients worldwide. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a complicated business that

Privacy threats are currently the biggest threat to National Security today. The threats are not only concerning to the government, however. An alarming 92% of Americans are concerned that the power grid may be vulnerable to a cyber-attack (Denholm). Although this is a more recent development to the cyber threats we have experienced, this is not the first time that privacy threats have stepped into the limelight as people are forced to watch their every online move.

Certain political members are against the Healthcare Reform ACT however, all hospitals must comply. To assist hospitals with meeting the deadline the government agency of Department of Medicaid and Medicare services implemented, The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Act with meaningful use. This ACT has distributed millions of dollars to hospitals as an incentive to implement electronic medical record and computerize provider order entry before 2016 (Blumenthal, D 2010, p 501). Some political concerns was the national electronic medical record database will infringe on the patients’ privacy rights because of this the Health Insurance Patient Portability Act has been enhanced to enforce patient’s rights and privacy with technology.

The research paper will take an in-depth view of the current cyber threat and will explore the current efforts taken by the United States in combating the rapidly growing cyber threat. The research conducted will revolve around recent piece of legislation that are said to be the answer to combating cyber-crime. This paper will also look at past efforts and explore their failure and compare with the new piece of legislation to see if it will actually be effective. There are many cyber security techniques which have been implemented in the attempt to thwart the threat and have failed, what makes this approach different.

This report will aim at demonstrating that the human element represents the top cybersecurity threat for hospitals, and perhaps any organizations. Ultimately the goal is a collaborative effort on designing effective policies to manage cyber threats facing the healthcare industry.

Early in 2016, I raised concerns pertaining to cybersecurity, as it pertains to medical devices, which lead to a revitalization of a long dormant project in IT. To date we have began to collaborate with IT, Procurement and other division, to recruit the resources and develop the system to support the development of a world class cybersercutiy approach for medical devices. This process will be an evolution, that will develop over the next several

Concerns regarding cyber security have risen in America due to the massive attacks sprung by Isis and other criminals within the nation. Cyber-crime itself can range from theft, harassment, hacking, and potential organized killings. However, what does cyber security entail and how can it be addressed? Some argue that the threat of cyber war is dominant, while others argue that cyber wars are exaggerated threats that should not be taken seriously. In regards to handling this predicament, people demonstrate that the NSA (National Security Agency) can’t be trusted because of their failure to protect civil liberties, whereas others argue that requiring education on cyber security would provide a foundation for individuals to advocate security for themselves. The advancement of the Internet continues to evolve without safety repercussions that prevent terrorism, loss of

As the world moves forward, there are new threats that arise and it is difficult to handle each one. One of the largest threats to any country are cyber-attacks/computer hacking. Each day on the news there is a developing story about a country’s data base being hacked by an anonymous source and all the classified files were exposed to the public. As a result, cybersecurity has increased significantly in the countries that can afford it. The United States and China have recently increased spending and research on cybersecurity to protect their classified documents. Unfortunately, as technology evolves, there are new ways for both countries to get hacked once again. Cybersecurity is the future for national security and must be updated each

Fu and Blum (2013) give their views on the cybersecurity risks associated with the medical devices. Some of their key points are: a) medical devices depend on software for providing care and services. b) Security risks could cause harm to the patient. c) Post-market surveillance of the medical device is required. d) Health data integrity and availability of patient care are crucial as compared to hacking of medical devices. e) Provide incentives to user facilities to report security vulnerabilities and security incidents. f) Manufacturers should consider cybersecurity during design phase of the medical device. g) Match the underlying software life cycles with the lifecycle of the medical device. h) Standards and regulations to protect cybersecurity would need to be created and enforced thoroughly. i) Provide

Cybersecurity, cyber conflict, cyberwarfare, cyberattack. In addition to these terms, there are countless others relating to the evolving technological capabilities and the emerging ?battlespace? dimension that is cyberspace. A robust volume of scholarly literature has attempted to address numerous emerging security concerns in the cyber realm making cybersecurity one of the most discussed areas of study. Key leaders in the field of cybersecurity including General (ret.) Keith Alexander has stated that threats from the cyber realm are going to be some of the top security challenges the United States faces in the 21st century.[footnoteRef:1]