Date of Last Review 6/6/08
SME: Director of Management Information Systems

Test and Development Environments

Policy

To ensure the Test and Development Environments are logically separate from production.

Procedure

Test and development servers are logically separate from production environment.

Copies of production data shall not be used for testing unless the data has been declassified or unless all state and independent contractor employees involved in testing are otherwise authorized access to the data.

The environments are maintained in HCPC’s server room on the 2nd floor.

There is no production patient data used in the test or production environments.

Director of MIS
UT-HCPC

Related standards

Texas Administrative Code Chapter 202.75(6)

The Joint Commission : Management of Information
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