Assignment on Industry-specific compliance

    The health & life sciences industry is highly complex as well as regulated which is selected to conduct this research. In this industry, successful organizations like payors, health care providers, and the industry care providers are well experienced for the regulatory requirements and compliance navigation. The industry of health & life sciences strictly meets with HIPAA compliances. The US health & life Sciences organizations are already governed by HIPAA which has a very strong base of the privacy of the data as well as the experience of legal compliance at the time of coming to the implementation of GDPR. Furthermore, such organizations will highly give the advantages of a strong compliance mindset (Foth, 2016).

            There are some different kinds of overarching laws identified for the US health & life sciences industry.  The laws are related to the privacy of the medical data in the hospitals or in the other medical centers. The anarchy law for this the industry is that the US Privacy laws including protected health information which is completely defined by HIPAA. Furthermore, the processing of personal data is broadly regulated by GDPR through an entity that falls with the GDPR scope.

Standards or principles helpful for development and implementation

            The standards or the principles which are helpful for the development and the implementations of GDPR are determined and discussed in this document. GDPR has set out seven different types of principles which are: fairness, transparency, and lawfulness, minimization of the data, limitation purpose, limitation in the storage, accountability, accuracy as well as integrity and confidentiality, or the security of the healthcare confidential information. Some changes are also done into the principles. There was any principle for individual rights, so it has been dealt with. For the development and the implementation of GDPR in the health & life sciences industry, HIPAA as a framework is used to provide the protection of the medical data into the organizations and its databases. GDPR is using a different kind of practices to make the system effective and the more valuable in which the data of health & life sciences organizations will be more secure. The data which is collected from the users, the privacy policy tells about the actual reason and purpose of taking information from the users. Secondly, the staff of the organizations is well maintained and providing their services in an effective way to protect the users’ information. Most importantly, the best practice is that the staff always tries to keep update the data inventory by maintaining the security structure (GDPR Implementation and HIPAA Compliance: An Analysis of the GDPR and HIPAA for U.S. Health & Life Sciences Organizations, 2018).

Critical data infrastructure assets

            It is identified and discussed the critical data infrastructure assets in this section that is describing the physical and cyber systems or assets. the physical and virtual assets, systems, as well as the networks, are included in the critical data infrastructure assets of the US health & lifer sciences organizations that impact on the national economic security, the security of the organizations and the public health. The system which is used in healthcare organizations around the world is completely based on the digital system. Some organizations still are using the manual record system and use the paper files to note down and save the data of the hospitals. But now the healthcare departments are also focusing on the digital systems. The website panel is used to collect the information from the users who work or are operated under the HIPAA. The mobile applications have also introduced and the patients can use those applications to provide information. In the organizations, the data centers and separate IT offices are also made that always provide support to the infrastructure of the company.

Human Resources for Technical, Management and Legal Operations

            The human resource is very important and effective in organizations. So that’s why the US health & life sciences organizations also need human resources to resolve the technical and the issues in the healthcare sector. It is determined that the human resource information system which is proposed by HIPAA is used in the US health & life sciences organizations that typically provide more information and provide more data-driven solutions. This data-driven solution allows the staff to craft the reports form the depth for audit purposes. It is also useful to manage the employees working in the organization and help to take legal actions in case of an emergency.

Requisite law enforcement entities

            HIPAA is applying its rules with law enforcement investigations. There are three major rules or the law entities which are defined by HIPAA. The covered law enforcement entities are health plans, healthcare services, provider's rules as well as the healthcare clearinghouse. Furthermore, the law is also enforcing the healthcare communities and organizations to keep the data of the users.

References of Industry-specific compliance

Foth, M. (2016). Factors influencing the intention to comply with data protection regulations in hospitals: based on gender differences in behaviour and deterrence. . European Journal of Information Systems, 25(2), 91-109.

GDPR Implementation and HIPAA Compliance: An Analysis of the GDPR and HIPAA for U.S. Health & Life Sciences Organizations. (2018). GDPR Compliance, 1-14.