CHAPTER 10

Physical and Environmental Safeguards

Security beyond the Ones and Zeros

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. . . . Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

—Sun Tzu, The Art of  War

The physician rules the roost in the healthcare world, and there are good reasons for this. The most critical elements in the patient care process could not happen without the providers. This is a given, and the healthcare IT pros would do well to bear this in mind when supporting their most important users.

Dancing through the Dynamics

There is something interesting that happens in many exchanges between physician end-users and the EMR security team or perhaps ...

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