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How can cybersecurity be used to protect health information in an EHR? Multiple choice Maximum number of characters (including HTML tags added by text editor): 32,000 Show Rich-Text Editor (and character count) 0oo 34 20

Answer 1

Cybersecurity refers to ways to prevent, detect and respond to attacks against unauthorised access in a computer system and its information

• With increase of reliance on computer systems for storage of medical information and for future references, the health data is at higher risk for cyber attacks now more than ever
• EHR contains sensitive medical information along personal information of patient like phone number, email address, medial insurance proofs, social seurity numbers etc..
• It is important to have strong cybersecurity practices to protect patient information and also organisational assets

Measures to ensure safety of EHR:

1. develop a set of rules and policies for handling patient data
2. train employees on how to recognise phising scams
3. assign unique user ids and passwords
4. limit messaging and collabration apps to those approved by HIPAA
5. stay current on the cybersecurity threats and keep employees updated

3 levels of security safeguards should be used:

1.physical

• assigned security
• physical access controls
• workstation security

2. administrative

• risk analysis and management
• cheif information security officer
• system security evaluation
• bussiness continuity and disaster recovery planning

3.technical

• access control: unique user ids and passwords
• entity authentication
• data encryption
• firewall protection
• virus checking