Introduction:

Information security is an important issue to consider when dealing with patient sensitive information actually it provides a huge burden of liability. Not to forget the ethical issues associated this type of practice. Although there are lots of policies, rules and guidelines provided by governmental and nonprofit organizations it is very important for the physician and the staff to secure patient information while providing their service.  

Other issues to consider are more related to technology such as data backup, system login, levels of access to patient data. With current existing technology physician’s approval on prescriptions can be done electronically, hacking to the system might result a major problem in prescription abuse. All these issues need to be addressed when planning and managing information security.

Requirement:

Analyze any random physician’s office that you visited before and noticed security issues within.  Start by stating current system strengths and weaknesses and identify security solutions where needed. Submit a report in MS Word document that includes the following heading:

1.	Introduction: A description of the physician’s office current security procedures, policies, and software and hardware used to secure patients’ information 
2.	Method(s) used to analyze the clinic: Describe and explain the different methods that have been used to analyze the collected information
3.	Analysis findings: In this section you can provide some examples of the weaknesses and the strengths.  
4.	Recommendations of security solutions: In this section you will state the recommended changes needed to secure patient information