Explain the concept of privacy and its legal protections

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This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a written paper and a PowerPoint presentation. You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for.
In the day-to-day operations of information security, security professionals often focus the majority of their time dealing with employee access issues, implementing security methods and measures, and other day-to-day tasks. They often neglect legal issues that affect information security. As a result, organizations often violate security-related regulations and often have to pay heavy fines for their non-compliance.  Thus, as a Chief Information Officer in a government agency, you realize the need to educate for senior leadership on some of the primary regulatory requirements, and you realize the need to ensure that the employees in the agency are aware of these regulatory requirements as well.
Section 1: Written Paper
1. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

a. Provide an overview that will be delivered to senior management of regulatory requirements the agency needs to be aware of, including:

i. FISMA

ii. Sarbanes-Oxley Act

iii. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

iv. PCI DSS

v. HIPAA

vi. Intellectual Property Law

b. Describe the security methods and controls that need to be implemented in order to ensure compliance with these standards and regulatory requirements.
c. Describe the guidance provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and other agencies for ensuring compliance with these standards and regulatory requirements.
d. Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your written paper must follow these formatting requirements:
  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
Section 2: PowerPoint Presentation
2. Create an eight to ten (8-10) slide security awareness PowerPoint presentation that will be presented to the agency’s employees, in which you:

a. Include an overview of regulatory requirements and employee responsibilities, covering:

i. FISMA

ii. Sarbanes-Oxley Act

iii. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

iv. PCI DSS

v. HIPAA

vi. Intellectual Property Law

Your PowerPoint presentation must follow these formatting requirements:
  • Include a title slide, six to eight (6-8) main body slides, and a conclusion slide.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
  • Explain the concept of privacy and its legal protections.
  • Describe legal compliance laws addressing public and private institutions.
  • Analyze intellectual property laws.
  • Examine the principles requiring governance of information within organizations.
  • Use technology and information resources to research legal issues in information security.
  • Write clearly and concisely about information security legal issues and topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

choose an interest group that appeals to you and then identify a public policy issue that your selected interest group is working on impacting

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write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Interest groups play a significant role in contemporary American politics, on a wide range of public policy issues, from healthcare (Affordable Care Act, for example) to gun control (the NRA is a well-known example), and from financial services regulation to regulating food production.

For this discussion board, choose an interest group that appeals to you and then identify a public policy issue that your selected interest group is working on impacting. In addition, include the following information:

  • What types of activities are conducted by your interest group? Provide examples of activities undertaken by the group within the last 12 months. Activities can include lobbying, television or radio spots, media spots, rallies or other activities. Also, if available, provide links to any news articles about the organization’s activities or press releases from the organization or other articles from the organization’s website for your classmates’ reference.
  • How is your chosen interest group connected to the average citizen, if at all? Provide examples of average citizens’ involvement in your chosen interest group, if any. If your chosen interest group rarely or does not interact with the average citizen, please discuss how the work of your chosen interest group indirectly impacts the average citizen, if at all.
  • Do you believe that interest groups do, or have the ability to, promote corruption in government? Explain your position. If they do or have the potential to do so, why do you believe so? If not, what do you think prevents them from corrupting government? Support your position with specific examples.

Health Care Entrepreneurial Business Plan

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Health Care Entrepreneurial Business Plan

 

Create a hypothetical and viable entrepreneurial opportunity in the health care field. For this assignment, you follow an opportunity through the entrepreneurial process from developing the idea to pitching the business opportunity to investors. Start the process by generating ideas for your health care business opportunity and drafting a short concept statement to determine the viability of the business opportunity selected. Then, elaborate on your concept statement by developing a business plan in the form of an executive summary. Lastly, create a presentation of your business plan as a funding pitch of the team’s entrepreneurial opportunity to investors.

 

Assignment Details

 

Part I: Opportunity Description and Concept Statement

 

Describe the entrepreneurial opportunity you chose and develop a concept statement for the team’s business. Be sure to include the following items in the description and statement:

 

  1. Entrepreneurial opportunity
  2. a) Describe the opportunity in at least 200 words.
  3. b) Explain why it is an opportunity rather than an idea.
  4. Concept Statement
  5. a) Product or service
  6. b) Target market
  7. i) Describe the common approaches you would use to assess that your opportunity meets the needs of the target market and is a profitable opportunity.
  8. c) The benefits of the product or service
  9. d) The positioning of the product or service
  10. e) Evaluate the opportunity
  11. i) List the evidence that supports the need for the potential opportunity. Is the opportunity a societal need? Is it due to the diversity of the industry? If the opportunity is the same as someone else’s idea, what makes it stand out from the rest?
  12. f) Statement must be at least one page total

 

See p. 83 of Entrepreneurship for an example concept statement. (see uploaded attachment)

Part II: Executive Summary and Funding Pitch

 

Use the information in your concept statement to create a business plan for the team’s entrepreneurial business. Write a 1,050- to 1,250-word executive summary of your business plan that includes the following:

 

  1. Describe the entrepreneurial opportunity.
  2. Describe the business, product, or program planned.
  3. Describe the management team; each team member must play a role in the team.
  4. Explain how you would conduct a feasibility analysis.
  5. Describe the target market.
  6. Explain what resources the business needs to move forward in the entrepreneurial process.
  7. Write a brief summary of financial projections.
  8. a) Base the summary on benchmarking, research of similar types of publicly traded companies
  9. Identify the forces that determine profitability in the industry.
  10. Determine the challenges faced by the business as it grows.
  11. a) Identify how you evaluate the progress and challenges with growth.
  12. b) Determine the two best possible strategies for the growth of your business.

 

 

Create a 12- to 15-slide presentation of your executive summary. Design the presentation as though you were pitching your business plan to investors for funding. Include detailed speaker’s notes.

Are there instances in which private medical information should be revealed to others in order to protect individuals or the public from harm?

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Ethics in Medicine

In this week’s Discussion, you will explore how ethics applies to issues in medicine. Bioethics is a distinct subject that takes medical and biological issues and analyzes them using ethical reasoning and theory. The topics discussed in bioethics are varied but these issues impact your lives directly.

Confidentiality is both common sense and professional convention, per the Hippocratic Oath, in the sense “I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know” (Lasagna, 1964). It is an obligation not only of those who are called up to take the oath as a matter of course, but all healthcare professionals.

Are there instances in which private medical information should be revealed to others in order to protect individuals or the public from harm? Please explain your position using ethical reasoning and theories.

Lasagna, L. (1964). “Hippocratic Oath—Modern Version.” WGGH Educational Foundation for PBS and NOVA Online. Retrieved June 2, 2015 from the NOVA site: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/hippocratic-oath-today.html

200 words with two academic references