Chapter Review

This chapter described the importance of using architectural safeguards in designing, building, purchasing, and implementing safe and secure IT systems and medical devices. When designing or building an IT system, all aspects of the system’s architecture—its individual hardware and software components—must be considered. The IT system design-and-build process mandates that various architectural considerations related to the components’ features, functions, and desired performance are defined in the requirements. The overall goal is to design, build, purchase, and implement safe and secure IT systems and components for use in healthcare. The reader should understand the relationships between reliability, availability, scalability, ...

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