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HSM 4470: Health Data Security Assignment

This guide was created to help students with the research process for this healthcare data breach case study

Your Assignment

This written assignment focuses on the use of successful management techniques to address issues of data security.  To successfully complete this assignment, you will need to provide:

  • A brief assessment of the problems that your organization faces from a health care management point of view. 

  • An overview of key health care laws, regulations, and guidelines related to data security and confidentiality.

  • A discussion of recent data breaches that have occurred within the health care industry.

  • An explanation of the action steps that your organization should take to best handle the given crisis.

You will also need to:

  • Utilize a minimum of four references. Resources used to support your findings should include a variety of information types including interviews, expert opinions, journal articles, and newspaper articles. 

  • Use APA citation format to provide a reference list and in-text citations.

Please refer to the assignment description and grading rubric in your syllabus for a complete explanation of the assignment requirements.

 

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