You are the Health Information Officer at a large hospital. You have learned a significant information
technology failure or breach has occurred within your hospital. Using the Internet or the Strayer
University library database, identify other health care organizations or healthcare providers that have
recently had a significant information technology failure or breach. Write a report to your staff, notifying
them of the failure or breach, who such failures or breaches have affected similar organizations, and how
those organizations resolved the issue(s).
Write a four to five (4-5) page report for your staff in which you:
Outline four (4) key factors contributing to the other organizations’ HIMS failures or breaches.
Analyze three (3) ways the HIMS failures impacted the organizations’ operations and patient information
protection, privacy, or personal safety.
Diagnose the leadership teams’ reactions to the failures. Analyze whether the leadership teams took
sufficient measures to address various stakeholder groups impacted. Next, consider whether the other
organizations had sufficient resources in place to prevent these occurrences. If not, identify where most
of the failures occurred.
Suggest three (3) outcomes for the facility and state and explain whether you agree with the overall
verdict or violation.
Recommend at least three (3) best practices your hospital can adopt to avoid such HIMS failures or
breaches in the future. Provide support for these recommendations.
Explain one (1) current government requirement requiring all healthcare organizations to ensure health
care and patient information is secure and information breaches and technology failures are minimized.
Use at least four (4) current (2015-2019), quality resources in this assignment.