Question: You Are The Chief Executive Officer [CEO] Of A Health Services Organization. This Organization Has Inpatient And Outpatient Facilities, Home Healthcare Services, And Other Services That Meet Your Patient Population’s Needs. It Also Has A World-renowned AIDS Treatment Center. The Organization Has Always Enjoyed An Excellent Reputation And Its Quality …
Youare the Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of a health servicesorganization. This organization has inpatient and outpatientfacilities, home healthcare services, and other services that meetyour patient population’s needs. It also has a world-renowned AIDStreatment center. The organization has always enjoyed an excellentreputation and its quality of care is known to be excellent.
Unfortunately, your organization has recently been featured inevery media vehicle known to man. The reason: Someone downloadedthe names of 4,000 HIV+ patients seen in your HIV clinic and postedthe list on the Internet.
TheBoard of Trustees is furious and wants to fire you. You have beenable to convince them that they need to keep you as CEO to fix thismajor crisis. You hire a computer security consultant who comesinto your organization, disguised as a nurse manager. After threedays, she comes to you with the following report.
- Nurses log in to the computer system with their passwords andthen walk away, leaving the system open and running.
- Jones leaves his password taped to his PC on a piece ofpaper.
- Fax machines and printers are in open rooms without locks.
- One password can access the entire database in the hospitalincluding human resources.
- There are no programs reminding staff to change their passwordson a regular basis.
- She pretended to forget her password and other nurses gave hertheir password.
- She requested sensitive patient files and staff provided herwith the files without question.
AssignmentRequirements
Yourpaper should be clear, concise, and 4 double-spaced pages(excluding a title page and a reference page). Only the first 4pages of your assignment will be graded, so it is important to beconcise in your writing and remain on-topic.
Youdo not need to provide an abstract or describe any of the detailsprovided above.
Youmust address the following:
- A brief assessment of the problems that your organization facesfrom a ‘big picture’ health care management point of view. Thisshould be a high level overview of the category/categories ofproblems that your organization currently faces. (1 pagemaximum)
- An overview of key laws, regulations, and guidelines that arerelevant to the scenario. Be sure to support your assessment withexamples of why you believe each law, regulation, and/or guidelineis relevant. (1 page maximum)
- The identification of 2 similar situations that have occurredwithin the health care industry in recent years. A briefexplanation of how the identified organizations handled the crisisandan assessment ofwhether this approach would work for your organization. (1 pagemaximum)
- An explanation of how your organization could best handle thiscrisis. (1 page maximum)
Yourpaper should be clear, concise, and 4 double-spaced pages(excluding a title page and a reference page). Only the first 4pages of your assignment will be graded, so it is important to beconcise in your writing and remain on-topic.
Youdo not need to provide an abstract or describe any of the detailsprovided above.
Youmust address the following:
- A brief assessment of the problems that your organization facesfrom a ‘big picture’ health care management point of view. Thisshould be a high level overview of the category/categories ofproblems that your organization currently faces. (1 pagemaximum)
- An overview of key laws, regulations, and guidelines that arerelevant to the scenario. Be sure to support your assessment withexamples of why you believe each law, regulation, and/or guidelineis relevant. (1 page maximum)
- The identification of 2 similar situations that have occurredwithin the health care industry in recent years. A briefexplanation of how the identified organizations handled the crisisandan assessment ofwhether this approach would work for your organization. (1 pagemaximum)
- An explanation of how your organization could best handle thiscrisis. (1 page maximum)
Youare required to:
- Utilize a minimum of four references. Resources used to supportyour findings should use a variety of information types includinginterviews, expert opinions, journal articles, and newspaperarticles.
- Provide a reference list in APA format.
- Use in-text citations in APA format.
