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Building a Better MIS-Trap-Case for Chapter 8 Sharon B. Buchbinder You are the CEO of a large health services organization (HSO) in Florida. Your HsO b inpatient and outpatient facilities, home health care services, and every other service your patient population needs. You also have a world-renowned AIDS treatment center tha has been considered by many to be a model for the rest of the U.S. Your HSO has always enjoyed an excellent reputation, and your quality of care is known to be excellent. You have been very happy in your work, knowing that your HSO provides good care to people who truly need it in a caring and cost-effective manner. Your HSO has recently been featured in every media vehicle known to every man. woman, and child in the U.S. and beyond. The reason: someone downloaded the name of 4,000 HIV+ patients who had been seen in your world-renowned HIV clinic and sent the list to newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. You and your board of trustees are completely blown away. The board is furious and wants to fire you. You have been able to convince them that they need to keep you on to fix the HSO's management information system (MIS). Their last words to you were "You had better come back with plans for building a better MIS, or you're fired!" nder You hire a computer security consultant, and she comes into your organization u "While I was undercover in your organization for a mere three days, I observed . Nurses log in with their passwords, walk away, and leave the system open and up ar Fax machines and printers are often in areas of high traffic and in rooms wit disguise as a nurse manager to help you determine where the security leak might be returns to you in three days with the following report the following breaches in computer security. These are the highlights (or lowlights): running - Dr. Jones leaves his password taped to the PC on a piece of paper; locksExplanation / Answer
1. The law being violated the employees is HIPAA ( Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act) of 1996, which stresses on keeping the patient's information confidential. As the employees have shared confidential information, HIPAA has been violated.
2. There were two primary reasons for the enactment of this law. First being keeping up with the privacy of the patients information and second being availability of the information when the doctors are in a sheer need to help provide the service best suited for patient.
3. Depends upon the circumstances, penalties can be different. From charging fines, losing funds to a suspension. It such a violation may even result in hospital running out of business as the reputation gets shredded.
4. The penalty should be the termination of the employee as soon as his guilt comes to light and there are evidences to back such guild. Also, hospitals should sue or a fine should be placed on such actions as hospitals can lose large amount of patients and their reputation can be damaged to an incurable condition.
5. If any such violation happens at my place of work, then yes I should be keeping my resume updated as no one knows what the future holds. It may be possible that hospital has to fire some personnel later, keppinh resume update is a good habit. But as far as looking for a new job is concerned, I'd not look for a new job until I leave the current as it wouldn't mean that I've been unfaithful towards my current workplace.
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