Managing Health Care Information System

Running head: MANAGING HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM
MANAGING HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM
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Maintaining the patient information through security mechanism:.................................................2
Administrative and personal issues regarding the security in health care management system:....2
Level of access in the system:.........................................................................................................4
Managing of confidential information in the health care management system:..............................4
Different methods to be trained to the employees in order to avoid phishing and spam emails.....5
Evaluation of the methods and learnings:........................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Answer to the question no 1:
Maintaining the patient information through security mechanism:
Maintaining patient information is important for the effectiveness of the health care
management system. The information stored in the health care management system holds the
information regarding the health care organization and patients are confidential. Breaching of the
data and information can become a major threat for both of the parties. In order to maintain the
security in the system, the system can be protected through the firewall and VPN. The use of
firewall will help unnecessary network traffics to be kept away from the organization network
(Thota et al.,2018). Apart from that the use anti-virus software in health care information system
can be helpful to protect the system from external threats and attacks (Zhang et al.,2017). There
is a chance that the system can be tampered by the internal people of the organization. In this
case, the implementation of username and password are needed to be done. There are several
access modes exists in the health care management system. Proper access can be given to the
employees through the authorized usernames and passwords. However, the for the admin access
the username and passwords and the encryption system is different and can be accessed by the
selected managers from the management.
Answer to the question no 2:
Administrative and personal issues regarding the security in health care management
system:
The identified administrative and personal issues in the health care management are
managing the access of the health care management system. There is a chance that the
unauthorized access can be happened on the behalf of the patient. However, the probability of