Health information management

Background Statement I am currently the CEO of a large Health Services Organization (HSO) located at Florida. It has inpatient and outpatient services, home healthcare facilities, and a world well-known AIDS treatment center. My HSO has always enjoyed an excellent reputation, until recently someone downloaded the names of 4,000 HIV+ patients and sent the list all around the world. The board of trustees blames me for this unforeseen incident and they are so furious that they wanted me fired. I…

Why is it important to protect information in the food service industry to maintain competitive advantage? Information security is the process of protecting the availability, privacy, and integrity of data. Information technology and methods of securing it have been around for centuries. Whether it is hiding your diary under your pillow, keeping a secret from others, or encrypting your passwords on a desktop, the need to secure data or information has always been important. In the food service…

et al, 2013). With the introduction and use of cloud computing, the network itself becomes the computer and enables the owner to access it from any geographical location. The installation of free Wi-Fi networks in public spots to enhance flow of information especially in developing countries and enhancement of the collaboration between human beings and robots has been a major leap in the IT…

of two information hiding techniques and fusing them together in order to enhance data security. This concept is aim at intensifying security in instances in which data confidentiality is of utmost importance. This technique of data hiding enhances security since it involves the combination of two strong techniques. It would not only encrypt the data but also hide them in an unattractive body. The implementation of this technique in the health sector would protect any patient’s information and…

Organizations created and stored numbers of information or data in their system everyday which are increasing from day to day. Moreover, cybercriminals has already learnt an investigated about their victims before attacks, for sure they will targeted an organization that earns such a huge amount of income. The information in the organization is essential for its business operation, without it the organization cannot run the business and it will lead to management issues. Therefore, if the…

fastest growing fields is information technology, because computers are a part of most people’s lives and businesses. A recurrent topic in the news today is computer hacking. Recently, several companies have been hacked into and customers’ digital information has been stolen. Even the government can’t seem to keep its information safe. Everyday, people’s identities are stolen because their online bank has been hacked into. Digitization, the process of making information digitally stored on a…

Ronin Chang is a security professional with many years of experience of in the security related industry. Security surrounding networking, systems, architects, physical, and so forth. There is no mystery here. Ronin Chang has been dealing with information security prior to the CISSP even being a certification (which is 1994 for those who don’t know). Ronin Chang was around when the great Hal Tipton was at…

research question was explored through the literature review and consideration of the needs of the WCC as an example of an organization requiring an asset management information system. When attempting to update their model (Delone & McLean, 2004) there were three major dimensions of information system quality. These included service, system, and information quality. Each of these measures of quality needs to be investigated, controlled, and measured (Petter, DeLone & McLean, 2013). This is…

1. What are the potential sources of the problem? One major potential source of the problem that Interwest Healthcare is facing is that management cannot effectively communicate the importance of accurate data entry to the hospital staff. With the management reports compiled from the system, there could be concerns for cost allocation with the different treatments. If any mistakes are made while entering the data, it could lead to miscalculations concerning different treatment cost. While a…

Q3: How can you use the five-component model? The five components of an information system: 1. Hardware runs and makes up the computer system; 2. Software are programs that are built in on the computers; 3. Data refers to the results derived from what has been done; 4. Procedures are rules for people to follow; and 5. People are users of the information system. The five-component model can be used to do a business process automatically. This can be done when people…