Question

As a health information professional, it is important to be informed about data breaches, health information security, threats, and vulnerability in healthcare. Elaborate on how you would address a potential threat to health information security that started in your department or, potentially, the larger organization.

Examine the following websites to determine the potential types of threats to health information security and basic policy requirements: HIMSS.org, HealthIT.gov, healthcareinfosecurity.com, or other websites related to health information security.

Answer 1

Health information are the data of patient regarding their health status. It is very important to secure it from breaches. If there is a poor security system it may lead to cyber hacking of health details, research details done for betterment to save people from life threatening illnesses by the hackers and selling it in the black market to earn money.

There is a famous saying " Prevention is better than cure", Do being in this place it is best to have a tight secured data storage, recording and transmission of data from one end to other. A secured username and password to be used for the health care team members and patient separately. A single control or access by the head to be there to monitor the overall securacy having an informational technology team