Specialized Engineering: Healthcare Facilities

Designing security for healthcare facilities requires careful planning and experience with both security and healthcare environments, combined with a solid grounding in systems and security engineering principles. This reference applies security engineering methodology to healthcare facilities, equipment, and data so that patient information and patient privacy are protected while remaining compliant with healthcare regulations. It covers how to apply security engineering principles to healthcare, the healthcare information laws that drive requirements, how to engineer and implement healthcare security solutions, and how to validate those designs once they are built. A running case study — a fictional private healthcare company called Globomantics Regional Healthcare Centers — is used throughout to illustrate how these concepts play out in a real-world expansion project involving two acquired hospitals and one brand-new facility.

When engineering security for a healthcare organization, "facilities" means far more than buildings. It includes the systems housed inside those buildings, the data processed by those systems, the healthcare workers who use that data, and — most importan...