A roadmap for information security assessment for meaningful use
2013
This research responds to the urgent need for a comprehensive guide for healthcare providers to assess their organization's information security policy and procedures in order to provide attestation for the Department of Health and Human Services' Meaningful Use objectives. Healthcare providers have numerous legal, financial, and ethical motivations to safeguard their patient's data and are expending considerable resources in this pursuit. Unfortunately most healthcare providers do not have the adequate tools or training to verify their organization's practices are actually compliant with federal guidelines. To this effect the proposed research lays out a comprehensive and homogeneous approach for evaluating the security policies and practices within a computing environment. To solidify the effectiveness of our proposed research, the assessment plan and testing tools have been evaluated in a real-world HIMSS Stage 6 healthcare organization.