Question

A brief (1-2 paragraph) discussion of the importance of protecting electronic health records from data breach, including both ethical and legal reasons

Answer 1

Importance of protecting electronic health records from data breach.

          * Electronic health records are the health related informations of a patient who seek

            medical care in a health care setting.so it is a confidential data of each patient for

            maintaining this confidentiality institutions need to keep the record away from data

            breach.

        * It is used as a legal document if any issues happened in the organization related to

           patient care.

        * It is used by health care providers in clinical decision making process so protection of

           electronic health data is important.

         * Patient have right to keep the heath information of them as per law so safety measures

            should be used when recording electronic health data to avoid invasion of privacy of

            patient.

         * Maintaining health records is really necessary to continue the trustful relationship between

            patient and health care provider.