Asset Identification & Asset Classification 1. What is the purpose of identifying IT assets and inventory? i. To help identify areas of potential risks. 2. What is the purpose of an asset classification? ii. To evaluate the health of the company by examining how well each of the company’s assets are performing. 3. For the scenario you picked, give three (3) examples of customer privacy data elements. (HIPAA) iii. Names iv. Medical records v. Health
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Achilles’ heel of today’s health systems. 2. Terrorism Versus Bioterrorism Despite the dark past in healthcare systems, current issues of the use of biological agents as means of mass destruction is alarming. Most of the countries across the globe are now faced with the daunting task of terrorism control, since this is one area where biological agents find a lot of use. According to Forst, terrorism may be defined as a “premeditated and unlawful use of violence [on] non-combatant populations having
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If one was able to put their own price on a gene patent, then a lot more clinical research would be easily accessible, thus leading to less expensive testing and a lower amount of deaths. Film producer, Michael Crichton, who wrote “Patenting Life” and an economist in the Bureau Of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, John E. Calfee, who wrote “ Decoding The Use Of Gene Patents,” discuss the use of gene patents and its negative effects on medical research. Crichton and Calfee both
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Pick a story of local, national, or international importance from the front page of any newspaper. Identify your source and give the date the article appeared. Then use your sense of humor, sense of outrage, sense of justice--or just plain good sense--to explain why the story engages your attention. (500 words or less) Doctor in New York City Is Sick With Ebola, OCT. 23, 2014 (New York Times) “Craig Spencer is selfish,” said one girl when talking about ebola. Two years ago the outbreak of ebola
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Jonathan Flores COM 122 Janson Jones April 23, 2015 Embry Riddle Selfiness Survival Compound In the year 2015, the outbreak Selfiness Virus is upon us. This is not your typical flesh eating or bacterial disease. It spreads quickly and takes over the human host where the infected become so enraged they eat people. There have been few isolated cases where the infected have been contained and eliminated. However, our campus and importantly our society are not ready for worldwide spread of this
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Bioterrorism After events such as 9/11, terrorism still instills fear into America's population. Why? Simply because it is the one danger the American people cannot control. Biological terrorism is not always feared or worried about, but it is a genuine possibility and a lethal surprise that causes devastation. If not prepared, these deadly pathogens could easily kill a large number of people. With tensions on the rise, what will the government or citizens do to defend themselves? If something happens
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Bioterrorism is the use of harmful substances to seriously hurt or kill another person. Schmalleger (2013) accurately defines bioterrorism as the “intention or threaten use of viruses, bacteria, fungi, or toxins from living organisms to produce death or disease in humans, animals, or plants” (p. 591). This form destruction can easily spread to mass quantities of people in a timely fashion making it a great concern among our law enforcement and other agencies. There are many forms of bioterrorism
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In E-Commerce systems, like online shops, there is a need to present a variety of products to online customers. These products can be unrelated like food and books, or related in a hierarchical classification structure. The product information needs to be organized in a way that enables the customer to do searches, matches, and comparisons between different products based on some common product attributes. The common solution for this is to represent all products in a store in a catalog, either
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Small Pox and the Indians Throughout our history books we read time and time again about different groups of people who had to endure death and devastation from different occurrences, such as war, genocide or disease. I would like to talk about one of those occurrences, which is only briefly mentioned to us, which is the effect that smallpox had on the Indian communities that occupied the land that would eventually become the United States. To begin, I will briefly explain smallpox, which is
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Japanese Army germ warfare and human experiments is around 580,000.[5] According to other sources, the use of biological weapons researched in Unit 731's bioweapons and chemical weapons programs resulted in possibly as many as 200,000 deaths of military personnel and civilians in China.[6] Unit 731 was the headquarters of many subsidiary units used by the Japanese to research biological warfare; other units included Unit 516 (Qiqihar), Unit 543 (Hailar), Unit 773 (Songo unit), Unit 100 (Changchun)
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