Rthin's Security Policy (RHIMA)

The system requires the patient and the physician to have access to the Internet, computing devices and login-in credentials. Both physicians and patients would require a username and a secured password to access the portal. Given patient consent, it should be possible to add others as “caretakers” to have access to a filtered view of a patient’s plan for treatment administration.

Discuss security standards and methods, including the need for data storage integrity and data backup and recovery. In addition to complying with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), SMC needs to be valiant in how the organization will protect information and manage network security. Information security is the protection of information against risk to its integrity, inadvertent disclosure, or availability (Hawkins, 2013a). The most common threats an organization's network will face are hackers, spyware, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and malicious insider (Hawkins, 2013a). To protect SMC from hackers, they will use firewalls and intrusion-detection devices. Firewalls protect network systems by obstructing unauthorized entry while allowing approved communications (Hawkins, 2013a). Intrusion-detection systems monitor who the user is and what the user accesses. To promote HIPPA, SMC will track the last names of users who accessed patients with the same last name to reveal inappropriate use of client information.

New security measures would take place to reduce the risk of member private information from being a breach and appropriate sanctions against workforce members who fail to comply with security policies and procedures. Kaiser Permanente information system will be regulated and reviewed. then security responsibility would be assigned to an individual for overseeing development of new security policies and procedures. Supervision who has access to ePHI would be enforced. Training and awareness of HIPAA law will be a standard required that member of the workforce will have to take to ensure further employment with the organization. Continuous examination of technical and nontechnical in response to changes that may affect the security ePHI of Kaiser Permanente be evaluated every six

The security measures include password protection, software updates, firewalls, malware protection and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In order for protection of the information, it is important that the password is long with other required characteristics. Be sure to make the password strong enough so that the hacker will never be able to access our information. As for the software, it is crucial to keep computer updated. When pop-ups begin, that is a hint that the software needs an update. It is important that in the health care field, all of the systems must be protected by a firewall. A firewall either permits or blocks a requested network connection such as world wide web site, an email or a file transfer based on a set of policies determined by a network administrator or personal user, (Anonymous, 2014).# Keep the system updated at all times and watch out for malware. HIPAA is known to provide protection for the patients’ health information. Privacy is important, and it allows only the health care providers with the access.

Last week it was reported that 500 patient records had been compromised. Our IT Security department has done an extensive audit and concluded that there are many issues with our security system regarding the protection of our patient’s privacy. Outlined below are some issues that were found and how they are going to be addressed going forward.

With today’s advancement in technology, most hospitals have developed a data security plan to ensure that patient data is being handled correctly and is only viewed by authorized personnel. Hospitals can keep unauthorized personnel from viewing patient information by setting up individual passwords (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2013) only allowing those employees to view the patient’s information for them to complete their job task. When an employee is entering information into the system, it needs to be in real time as much as possible to keep human errors from occurring and for a correction to be made there will need to be a note attached to

Myranda Aguilar is a privacy analyst for Sutter Health in Sacramento, California. The purpose of the program is to protect patients’ privacy, compliance, and information security. Her responsibilities are to monitor and investigate any suspicious activity by taking a proactive standpoint against hackers, educating hospital staff, and ensuring patients safety during their stay in the hospital. One of the projects that she is currently working on is privacy auditing and monitoring by tracking patients records to determine if there has been any inappropriate activity by any of the workers, if so she is obligated to report the incident. They use a quarterly metric system to track the negative and positive attempts on a patients’ chart. Some of

There are many essential features found in a heath information system that are designed to protect patient privacy. For starters, at this candidate’s organization, every login is specific to an individual nurse and the

Health Body Wellness Center (HBWC) promotes medical research, evaluation, and sharing of information between health care professionals. The HBWC’s Office of Grants Giveaway (OGG) provides for the distribution of federally supported medical grants. OGG uses a Microsoft Access database program called Small Hospital Tracking System (SHGTS) to manage the medical grant distribution process. A risk assessment of SHGTS was conducted to evaluate vulnerabilities and establish a baseline of potential threats. HBWC has not provided a written Information Security (IS) policy that can be reviewed at this time. Additional As-Is questions (2) are

There are many problems that could arise from a patient’s information landing into the hands of a stranger, a boss, an enemy, or any other individual that does not have permission to view that information.

Some of the processes that have changed since HIPAA was implemented have been a higher increase in the patient information and security. Our job is to make sure our patients information is not compromised and that their information is secured. Now with EHR's every employee that utilizes the EHR has a certain username and password that is extremely vital with accessing our patients records. Also making sure when we are on the phone with a patients we do not speak so loud and repeat information that the waiting room can here because that is a violation.

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Nowadays, most clinicians are criticizing about the process time it takes to access patients’ health results in the information system to provide quality care. For that reason, I wouldn’t be surprised if a study said that most hospitals surveyed preferred a monolithic strategy over the best of breed strategy. Therefore, the best of breed strategy have several nurses and doctors complaining about the different systems they must sign in using a changed username and password to retrieve health information result on a patient. However, that delay can restrict them from making a noble clinical decision regarding patient safety.

Understanding the importance of access controls and audit controls are two of the main steps for implementing a successful compliance plan within all healthcare organizations. Three of the important steps in addressing ways to maintain and utilize the access controls are authentication, authorization, and audit (Gelzer, Acker, & Schneider, 2008). Authentication is used differently within the healthcare organization on how they create the access to all credentialed users to the data in a patient’s PHI. Authorization is assigned to all the users on when and how they are allowed to access specific data within a patient’s PHI. Lastly, it is the process of an audit trail that

In light of available security measures and their widespread acceptance within the information security community, there is no excuse for healthcare organizations to fail in fulfilling their duty to protect personal patient information. Guaranteeing the confidentiality and privacy of data in healthcare information is crucial in safeguarding the data of patients as there should be a legal responsibility to protect medical records from unauthorized access.