DESARROLLO Y APLICACIÓN DE UN MODELO PARA EVALUAR EL NIVEL DE MADUREZ DE GESTIÓN DE SEGURIDAD DE LA INFORMACIÓN EN INSTITUCIONES DE SALUD PÚBLICA EN LA CIUDAD DE CUENCA

Abstract

Nowadays, many institutions have taken advantage of information technologies to improve services, reduce costs and make decisions; in healthcare. The Information Systems currently used become a vital tool for the timely diagnosis and treatment of patients. Therefore, it is necessary to implement policies and standards that ensure the reliability, availability and integrity of medical record information and complementary examinations; and of course, these implemented strategies need to be monitored and controlled on a regular basis. After the literature review, there are no works in Ecuador regarding the measurement of the maturity of Information Security in the health area; therefore, the present research work aims to propose a model to evaluate the maturity of information security in public health institutions; for that matter, it was an evaluation of the regulations to be met in the health sector was carried out; in order to generate a Maturity Model developed by following the methodology proposed by Becker, Knackstedt and Pöppelbuß, which will be validated by experts from different areas and after the correction of the observations received, the reliability of the validation carried out using the Cronbach's alpha coefficient method; Once an acceptable level of reliability has been verified, the proposed model is applied in a Public Hospital Institution of Third Level of complexity, to finally propose the recommendations based on the results analyzed.