scholarly journals Improving Digital Hospital Transformation: Development of an Outcomes-Based Infrastructure Maturity Assessment Framework

10.2196/12465 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. e12465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia AH Williams ◽  
Brendan Lovelock ◽  
Tony Cabarrus ◽  
Marlon Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Maturity Assessment

scholarly journals A Holistic Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment Framework for Higher Education Institutions in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3660
Author(s):  
Aliyu Aliyu ◽  
Leandros Maglaras ◽  
Ying He ◽  
Iryna Yevseyeva ◽  
Eerke Boiten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Capability Maturity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Maturity Assessment

As organisations are vulnerable to cyberattacks, their protection becomes a significant issue. Capability Maturity Models can enable organisations to benchmark current maturity levels against best practices. Although many maturity models have been already proposed in the literature, a need for models that integrate several regulations exists. This article presents a light, web-based model that can be used as a cybersecurity assessment tool for Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) of the United Kingdom. The novel Holistic Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment Framework incorporates all security regulations, privacy regulations, and best practices that HEIs must be compliant to, and can be used as a self assessment or a cybersecurity audit tool.

scholarly journals Implementation of Smart Manufacturing Maturity Assessment Framework：A Socio-Technical Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 02023
Author(s):  
Lei Yue ◽  
Zhou Wang ◽  
Yifang Fang ◽  
Zhonghua Han
Keyword(s):  
Smart Manufacturing ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Capability Maturity ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Maturity Assessment ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
Activity Models ◽  
Dimensional Assessment

Smart manufacturing capability maturity assessment has been widely carried out in order to help enterprises to identify the direction and route of smart transformation by stationing in enterprises. However, many maturity models for industrial enterprises can not reflect their industrial realities more accurately. Therefore, the aim of this paper attempts to make the smart manufacturing maturity assessment operational, and implement a specific assessment framework based on an existing general conceptual framework. This implementation involved two top-down approaches that one is socio-technical system as a top-level design of factors, and the other is refining assessment domains based on lifecycle and activity models. Results of this implementation showed a two-dimensional assessment framework instance and collections of definitions for capability maturity levels. To conclude, this implementation may be a reference for work specification of smart manufacturing maturity assessment. Three possible future research in the area was suggested at last.

scholarly journals Cyber Hygiene Maturity Assessment Framework for Smart Grid Scenarios

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inna Skarga-Bandurova ◽  
Igor Kotsiuba ◽  
Erkuden Rios Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Maturity Assessment ◽  
Security Standards

Cyber hygiene is a relatively new paradigm premised on the idea that organizations and stakeholders are able to achieve additional robustness and overall cybersecurity strength by implementing and following sound security practices. It is a preventive approach entailing high organizational culture and education for information cybersecurity to enhance resilience and protect sensitive data. In an attempt to achieve high resilience of Smart Grids against negative impacts caused by different types of common, predictable but also uncommon, unexpected, and uncertain threats and keep entities safe, the Secure and PrivatE smArt gRid (SPEAR) Horizon 2020 project has created an organization-wide cyber hygiene policy and developed a Cyber Hygiene Maturity assessment Framework (CHMF). This article presents the assessment framework for evaluating Cyber Hygiene Level (CHL) in relation to the Smart Grids. Complementary to the SPEAR Cyber Hygiene Maturity Model (CHMM), we propose a self-assessment methodology based on a questionnaire for Smart Grid cyber hygiene practices evaluation. The result of the assessment can be used as a cyber-health check to define countermeasures and to reapprove cyber hygiene rules and security standards and specifications adopted by the Smart Grid operator organization. The proposed methodology is one example of a resilient approach to cybersecurity. It can be applied for the assessment of the CHL of Smart Grids operating organizations with respect to a number of recommended good practices in cyber hygiene.

scholarly journals Improving Digital Hospital Transformation: Development of an Outcomes-Based Infrastructure Maturity Assessment Framework (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia AH Williams ◽  
Brendan Lovelock ◽  
Tony Cabarrus ◽  
Marlon Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Infrastructure ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Maturity Assessment ◽  
Emr Adoption

BACKGROUND Digital transformation in health care is being driven by the need to improve quality, reduce costs, and enhance the patient experience of health care delivery. It does this through both the direct intervention of technology to create new diagnostic and treatment opportunities and also through the improved use of information to create more engaging and efficient care processes. OBJECTIVE In a modern digital hospital, improved clinical and business processes are often driven through enhancing the information flows that support them. To understand an organization’s ability to transform their information flows requires a clear understanding of the capabilities of an organization’s information technology infrastructure. To date, hospital facilities have been challenged by the absence of uniform ways of describing this infrastructure that would enable them to benchmark where they are and create a vision of where they would like to be. While there is an industry assessment measure for electronic medical record (EMR) adoption using the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Analytics EMR Adoption Model, there is no equivalent for assessing the infrastructure and associated technology capabilities for digital hospitals. Our aim is to fill this gap, as hospital administrators and clinicians need to know how and why to invest in information infrastructure to support health information technology that benefits patient safety and care. METHODS Based on an operational framework for the Capability Maturity Model, devised specifically for health care, we applied information use characteristics to define eight information systems maturity levels and associated technology infrastructure capabilities. These levels are mapped to user experiences to create a linkage between technology infrastructure and experience outcomes. Subsequently, specific technology capabilities are deconstructed to identify the technology features required to meet each maturity level. RESULTS The resulting assessment framework clearly defines 164 individual capabilities across the five technology domains and eight maturity levels for hospital infrastructure. These level-dependent capabilities characterize the ability of the hospital’s information infrastructure to support the business of digital hospitals including clinical and administrative requirements. Further, it allows the addition of a scoring calculation for each capability, domain, and the overall infrastructure, and it identifies critical requirements to meet each of the maturity levels. CONCLUSIONS This new Infrastructure Maturity Assessment framework will allow digital hospitals to assess the maturity of their infrastructure in terms of their digital transformation aligning to business outcomes and supporting the desired level of clinical and operational competency. It provides the ability to establish an international benchmark of hospital infrastructure performance, while identifying weaknesses in current infrastructure capability. Further, it provides a business case justification through increased functionality and a roadmap for subsequent digital transformation while moving from one maturity level to the next. As such, this framework will encourage and guide information-driven, digital transformation in health care.

scholarly journals Cybersecurity maturity assessment framework for higher education institutions in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e703
Author(s):  
Iman Almomani ◽  
Mohanned Ahmed ◽  
Leandros Maglaras
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Gap Analysis ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Maturity Assessment

The Saudi Arabia government has proposed different frameworks such as the CITC’s Cybersecurity Regulatory Framework (CRF) and the NCA’s Essential Cybersecurity Controls (ECC) to ensure data and infrastructure security in all IT-based systems. However, these frameworks lack a practical, published mechanism that continuously assesses the organizations’ security level, especially in HEI (Higher Education Institutions) systems. This paper proposes a Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment Framework (SCMAF) for HEIs in Saudi Arabia. SCMAF is a comprehensive, customized security maturity assessment framework for Saudi organizations aligned with local and international security standards. The framework can be used as a self-assessment method to establish the security level and highlight the weaknesses and mitigation plans that need to be implemented. SCMAF is a mapping and codification model for all regulations that the Saudi organizations must comply with. The framework uses different levels of maturity against which the security performance of each organization can be measured. SCMAF is implemented as a lightweight assessment tool that could be provided online through a web-based service or offline by downloading the tool to ensure the organizations’ data privacy. Organizations that apply this framework can assess the security level of their systems, conduct a gap analysis and create a mitigation plan. The assessment results are communicated to the organization using visual score charts per security requirement per level attached with an evaluation report.

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