The company you work for is a programming services contractor that consults with businesses in the United States requiring assistance in creating software in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

The company you work for is a programming services contractor that consults with businesses in the United States requiring assistance in creating software in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Your company advertises a proven track record in providing secure code that meets regulatory and compliance recommendations that include the protection of all Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

Your client is a small hospital and surgery center that requires a program that will calculate the bill for a patient’s hospital stay, including charges for the surgery, daily hospital fees, and pharmacy use. The hospital only performs 5 types of surgeries, limits the patient stay to 3 days, and has a limited pharmacy offering of 10 prescription drugs. The hospital employees who will use the program should be able to enter the patient information, including name, hospital ID number, diagnosis, surgery type, length of stay, and prescriptions. The program will then produce a final billing statement. The client would like the program completed in six months.

Using the System Development Life Cycle document included below, and referencing the scenario above, complete the columns of each phase of the life cycle:

• Phase Description: Provide a briefdescription of what occurs in these phases.
• Engineering Principles: Respond to eachquestion
• Reference:Describetypical documents or artifacts used in each phase

The table in the document is designed to help you see how to apply the SDLC to an actual program

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.