Writing a Security Policy for a Medical Practice

Consider a large hospital that uses a centralized human resources information system to make employee-specific information available to the hospital staff. This is not a system related to patient care.

Requirements:

Following the Four Steps for Writing Policy Documents in your Lesson Content for this week, write a policy document that could be used to dictate the acceptable use policy for a Human Resources Information System.  This is not a system related to patient care.
 In order to earn full credit, this policy document should meet the following criteria:

• The Four Steps for Writing a Policy Document are followed.
• A clear description of a Human Resources Information System (HRIS) is included.
• Statements defining how different types of employees (managers, regular staff, HR staff) will use the HRIS system are written using clear, unambiguous language.
• Security measures that will be put into place to protect the employee data that is contained in the HRIS.
• Appropriate consequences are described if staff are to be found noncompliant.

Your policy should include the following criteria:

• Used policy and procedure format.
• Free of spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. 
• Written with original, not copied content.