Infrastructure Review

As a nurse executive leader, you may very well be tasked with the evaluation of the current technology safeguards, infrastructure, and regulations surrounding the security of the enormous amount of patient data collected in your organization. As nursing continues to increase point-of-care clinical technology, there is potential to increase vulnerabilities and risks with protected health information.

There are a variety of tools to assist with these evaluations.( HealthIT.gov has downloadable programs for a Security Risk Assessment Tool.)

Choose one of the Word documents, and do not choose the same one as your peers if possible.  

Analyze the Administrative, Technical, or Physical Safeguards using the corresponding SRA tool.

Include the following aspects in the discussion: