Question

An important component of any risk management plan is the requirement to be able to articulate the common breaches of electronic/digitized patient health information (PHI) as it relates to being a healthcare informaticist with the Veterans Affairs and Federal Aviation Administration. Suggest probable solutions to these breaches and what laws were breached in the process, in not less than 600 words.

Answer 1

Solutions to prevent health care information breaches are :-

- conduct a risk assessment

- provide continued HIPPA education to the staffs

- monitor devices and records

- encrypt data and hardware

- subnet wireless network

- manage identity and access stringently

- develop a strict bring your own device policy

- examine service level agreements carefully

- hold business associates accountable for IT security policies

- established a good legal counsel

The lease which were breached in the process are :-

- HIPPA( health information portability and accountability act)

- PHI ( personal health information)

- MDB (medical data breach)