Analyze methods and provide sound recommendations to ensure integrity of the electronic protected health information
Imagine you are an Information Security consultant for a small doctors office consisting of three (3) doctors, two (2) nurses, and one (1) receptionist. The office is physically located among several other professional office spaces.
The doctors utilize mobile devices over a wireless network to document patient visits, with the electronic patient records being stored on a server located within the building. Additionally, each doctors office has a desktop computer that utilizes a wired network to access the server and electronic patient records.
The receptionist station has a desktop computer that is used to schedule appointments, but cannot access patient records. In 1996, Congress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to help citizens maintain their health insurance coverage and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the American health care system.
You have been hired to ensure HIPAA technical safeguards are appropriately designed to preserve the integrity of protected health information maintained in the doctors office.
Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:
Analyze proper physical access control safeguards and provide sound recommendations to be employed in the doctors office.
Recommend the proper audit controls to be employed in the doctors office.
Analyze methods and provide sound recommendations to ensure integrity of the electronic protected health information.
Suggest three (3) logical access control methods to restrict unauthorized entities from accessing sensitive information, and explain why you suggested each method.
Analyze the means in which data moves within the organization and identify techniques that may be used to provide transmission security safeguard.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
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