Lesson 1: Assets

Review Exercises: Central Hospital

Central Hospital, located in a major U.S. city, is dispersed over several acres of land. It is routine for doctors and pharmacists to travel to four or five different buildings in one day. In order to avoid confusion in paperwork and data management, the hospital's administration decided that the doctors and pharmacists would carry small laptops with specialized tracking and management software installed on them. Instead of using paper-based charts, the company moved all of the patient, prescription, and treatment information on the computers, which are connected to a wireless network so that all employees involved in managing a patient's care has timely access to the information.

Given the above description, what general security concern (hardware, software, data) should be most important to the chief information officer at the hospital? Why?