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Data breaches in health care have become almost common occurrences in the national news as professional hackers and phishers infiltrate healthcare industry systems

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Data breaches in health care have become almost common occurrences in the national news as professional hackers and phishers infiltrate healthcare industry systems. In addition, with widespread deployment of mobile technologies, threats of exposure of secure data are very real.

In this assignment, address the following bullet points.  

• Choose one type of security breach facing the healthcare industry.
• Provide 2 examples of this type of security breach that have occurred within the last 5 years.
• Identify the key stakeholders in each breach and describe how they are impacted.
• Briefly describe key regulations that impact this type of breach.
• Recommend security strategies that might have prevented these incidences from occurring. (Be sure to look at both the individual and organizational level).
• If you were on the cybersecurity task force in a healthcare institution, what additional policies/regulations would you recommend be enacted or enforced to address these security issues?

The paper should be a minimum of 3–4 pages, not including the title and reference pages. Follow APA formatting guidelines. It is imperative that you support your statements, particularly your recommendations, with your course readings, as well as at least two additional sources from the Excelsior College Library. You must use a minimum of 2 scholarly articles and 2 professional journal sources to support your work. If you need assistance searching for source materials, please refer to the HSC445 Excelsior Library Assignment Tip Sheet.

Compose your work in a .doc or .docx file type using a word processor (such as Microsoft Word, etc.) and save it frequently to your computer. For those assignments that are not written essays and require uploading images or PowerPoint slides, please follow uploading guidelines provided by your instructor.

Check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors. When you are ready to submit your work, click “Upload Submission.”  Enter the submission title and then click on “Select a file to upload.” Browse your computer, and select your file. Click “Open” and verify the correct file name has appeared next to Submission File. Click on “Continue.”  Confirm submission is correct and then click on “Accept Submission & Save.”

Turnitin

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Once submitted, your assignment will be evaluated by Turnitin® automatically.  You will be able to view an Originality Report within minutes of your first submission that will show how much of your work has been identified as similar to other sources such as websites, textbooks, or other student papers.  Use your Originality Report as a learning tool to identify areas of your assignment that you may not have cited appropriately.  You may resubmit your assignment through this dropbox as many times as you need to check to see if you have made improvements, until the due date of the assignment. However, once you have made your first submission, you will need to wait 24 hours after each subsequent submission to receive a new Originality Report.  Plan accordingly as you draft your assignment.  Once the due date has passed, your assignment submission will be considered final. 

Evaluation

This assignment will be graded using the SHS Written Assignment Rubric located on the Course Rubrics page within the Start Here section of the course.  Please review the rubric prior to beginning your work so that you ensure your submission meets the criteria in place for this assignment.This assignment is one of three papers in this course. These three papers together are worth a total of 70% of your overall grade.