Data Security and Legal Considerations

This chapter is intended to serve as a starting point for the project manager in the quest for data security. The course of implementing systems in the healthcare environment is a minefield of legal ramifications found throughout all phases of implementation. Data security and legalities are often interconnected. Regulations and laws impacting every aspect of systems implementation include system access, display, and system output. Installing a technological system means working thorough all of the secondary impacts to complex processes that exist in an organization as well as planning for hardware installation.