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Information Security Risk Assessment in Healthcare: The Experience of an Italian Paediatric Hospital

Authors :
Riccardo Zangrando
Michele Bava
Domenico Cacciari
Edoardo Sossa
Daniel Zotti
Source :
CICSyN
Publication Year :
2009
Publisher :
IEEE, 2009.

Abstract

The match of research activity and paediatric healthcare services offered by the IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, produces a complex situation especially regarding IT security. World-wide IT Security issues in the recent years have had an exponential development of problems to face. Meanwhile, risks and threats are therefore growing and so all the problems tied up to the vulnerabilities’ management generating risks for the hospital security. These remarks aren’t involving only the continuous fitting to the application of the current Italian Regulation, but the search of tools (technological and organizational) that may guarantee security in an effective way. This study shows how the Hospital IT Dept. is providing the adjustment of technologies and procedures to increase IT security needs and giving access to data, information and knowledge to authorized personnel. To face these challenges the Hospital IT Dept. proposed both internally developed open-source technical solutions and information security risk assessment methods.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
2009 First International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........489c1f968a0cce6d4f6e8cbcd1a98ecc
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/cicsyn.2009.14