CourseHSC306

Week9 of 16

SemesterII

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This week’s topics

Maintaining Manual and Digital Storage Systems

Locked archiving rooms and tracking paper records
Electronic health record architectures
Server security and environmental controls
Routine system maintenance and backups
What is Digital Health? An overview of key terms
PC Care - clean, secure, update and backup Properly
Secondary storage

What you will be able to do

2.1 Describe how manual and electronic information storage systems are securely maintained.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe how manual and electronic information storage systems are securely maintained.

Study materials

Videos

What is Digital Health? An overview of key terms · YouTube · Carol Forde-Johnston · 11 min · for registered students
PC Care - clean, secure, update and backup Properly · YouTube · Kevin Colleran · 8 min · for registered students
Secondary storage · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students

Further resources

NIST SP 800-34 Rev. 1, ch. 3: Information System Contingency Planning Process · PDF · NIST, textbook chapter; pp. 13–33 · for registered students
NIST SP 800-123, section 4: Securing the Server Operating System · PDF · NIST, textbook chapter; pp. 4-1–4-8 · for registered students
Foundations of Information Systems, 5.1: Types of Network Threats · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 165–167 · for registered students

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Course plan

Week 1: Legislation Governing Information Handling
Week 2: Legal Requirements and Professional Codes
Week 3: Foundations of Confidentiality
Week 4: Confidentiality in Daily Communications
Week 5: Confidentiality vs Information Sharing Tensions
Week 6: Managing Disclosure Dilemmas
Week 7: Standards of Effective Record Keeping
Midterm: Midterm evaluation
Week 9: Maintaining Manual and Digital Storage Systems
Week 10: Operational Security and Access Controls
Week 11: Information Governance and Quality Monitoring
Week 12: Applying Effective Handling of Information in Health and So…
Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
Week 15: Review and coursework completion
Final: Final assessment and submission

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