RISK ASSESSMENT
PART-I
Risk assessment is the main component. It is used to process several elements such as identifying, prioritizing and estimating information security risks. It is used in the organizational risk management process. They can be used as a single or multiple methodologies in risk assessment. There may be critiques or sensitivity of the functions and information systems or the stage of information systems in the development life cycle.
Electronic medical record is a kind of database where the details of the patient is stored which can be accessed anytime. It is the digital version that contains all the data in a single file. It is created for the patients in the hospital and ambulatory environment. It has several benefits because it allows tracking the data over time and identifying and monitoring and improving as it allows the patients to identify the patient visits and screenings. Electronic health record will serve as the source for the electronic medical record. There is a difference between the emr and ehr where electronic health record is used to share information from all providers. The data stored in the ehr can be modified, updated, and share by the trusted providers. Risk assessment in such cases will have to make up an enterprise for medical practice called as Medco.
The main objectives of risk management are: securing the information of the information technology sector that will store and does all the necessary process that has to be made and it can also transfer the company’s data. It is used to enable the decisions made by the management to clear the expenses that are made will be a part of their budget. The performance of the management will be assisted by the authorized IT systems to support th...
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There is data loss in the database in the Medco Organization which needs to be prepared in the final documentation part. They have different levels of threats which will range from high to low and also efficient data needs to be reconciled and control the system implementations.
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