Risk analysis and management is one of the first steps health care providers should take to protect patients’ electronic protected health information (ePHI). In week 3, you developed an implementation plan for Dr. Jim Smith’s office, which has been used to help them successfully implement an EHR system. In this assignment, you will conduct a risk analysis for his office and identify measures to mitigate risks associated with its health information system.
Requirements:
1. Identify six threats or vulnerabilities, including natural, human, and environmental threats as well as technical and non-technical vulnerabilities.
2. For each threat or vulnerability, using a scale of low, medium, high, rate (1) its likelihood of occurrence and (2) its impacts on ePHI. Please provide explanations of your ratings and discuss how the threat/vulnerability can affect ePHI.
3. Based on ratings of threat/vulnerability likelihoods and impacts, use the following chart to rate the level (low, medium, high) of each risk associated with ePHI.
Low
Likelihood
Medium High
Low Risk
Low Risk
Low Risk
Low Risk
Medium Risk
Medium Risk
Low Risk
Medium Risk
High Risk
Impact
Low Medium High
4. For each risk, identify administrative safeguards, physical safeguards, and technical safeguards that Dr. Smith’s office can employ to mitigate it.
As we don’t have much information about Dr. Smith’s office in this instruction, feel free to make reasonable assumptions about its current status in your report.