D.14.5 - Health care research and practitioner education

Health Care Research and Practitioner Education fosters advancement in health discovery and knowledge.

This includes developing new strategies to handle diseases; promoting health knowledge advancement; identifying new means for delivery of services, methods, decision models and practices; making strides in quality improvement; managing clinical trials and research quality; and providing for practitioner education. The recommended provisional security categorization for health care research and practitioner education information is as follows:

Security category

D.14.5 - Health care research and practitioner education = {(confidentiality, Low), (integrity, Moderate), (availability, Low)}

Confidentiality Low

The confidentiality impact level is the effect of unauthorized disclosure of health care research and practitioner education on the ability of responsible agencies to fosters advancement in health discovery and knowledge will have only a limited adverse effect on agency operations, assets, or individuals. Recommended Confidentiality Impact Level: The provisional confidentiality impact level recommended for disclosure of health care research and practitioner education information is low.

Integrity Moderate

The integrity impact level is based on the specific mission and the data supporting that mission, not on the time required to detect the modification or destruction of information. Unauthorized modification or destruction of information affecting external communications that contain health care research and practitioner education information (e.g., web pages, electronic mail) may adversely affect operations and public confidence in the agency and also the agency mission. Recommended Integrity Impact Level: The provisional integrity impact level recommended for health care research and practitioner education information is moderate.

Availability Low

The availability impact level is based on the specific mission and the data supporting that mission, not on the time required to re-establish health care research and practitioner education. Health care research and practitioner education information are generally tolerant of delay. Typically, disruption of health care research and practitioner education information can be expected to have only a limited adverse effect on agency operations, agency assets, or individuals. Recommended Availability Impact Level: The provisional availability impact level recommended for health care research and practitioner education information is low