Formulate a secure storage and retrieval process for healthcare data. 

 

Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in 

Standard American English. 

 

Instructions 

There are two parts to this Assignment. Each one will help you better understand how security 

breaches are handled and give you the opportunity to create a security plan. Creating this security 

plan will help you understand what is needed to protect data. 

 

Part I 

1. Search the internet for news about security breaches in healthcare and other industries in the 

last three years. 

 

Suggested source for the latest breach information from the Office of Civil Rights: 

 

Source: HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Audit Program: United States 

Department of Health & Human Services. Retrieved from 

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/enforcement/audit/index.html 

 

2. Write a critical essay summarizing the two cases. Using what you have learned from this 

course, identify the principal threats in each of these cases and what could have been done to 

minimize these threats. 

 

Part 2   

 1. Using what you learned from Part I, develop a security plan for a medium sized organization. 

2. Critique the plan you have written, identifying its strengths, elements that were not covered in 

the text, and any additional omissions or weaknesses of the plan. 

 

REQUIREMENTS: 

Requirements 

 

ï‚· The Assignment should be a minimum of four to five pages in length, prepared in a 

Microsoft Word document. 

ï‚· Include a title page and reference page. Length requirements do not include the title 

page, and the reference page. 

ï‚· Follow APA style format and citation guidelines, including Times New Roman 12 point 

font and double spacing. 

ï‚· This Assignment should follow the conventions of Standard American English 

featuring correct grammar, punctuation, style, and mechanics. 

ï‚· Include at least four references. The course textbook counts as one reference. All 

sources must be scholarly. Wikipedia is not acceptable. Use APA style for all citations 

including course materials. 

ï‚· Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and 

insightful. 

 

ï‚· 100% NO PLAGARISM