Safety Of Healthcare Information

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Safety of Healthcare Information

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Safety of Healthcare Information

Part I

The change in technology has made it challenging for the inventors of the security

breaches to ensure realization of their objectives regarding achievement maintenance of security

in the healthcare centers. The failure to ensure effective of the security objectives at the

healthcare is attributable to the major work done by the hackers whose primary objective entails

the destruction of the secured sites as a way of obtaining the seemingly hidden information.

Consequently, the hackers often toil towards ensuring their establishment of new hacking skills

aimed at obtaining the confidential information regarding particular patients (Sterling, 2015).

The computer systems introduced in the global market often play a significant role in making

work easier through storage of data ensuring the provision of the cross-referenced data besides

facilitating retrieval of the information when necessary. However, this system despite its

common nature in the industries, it is often defenseless to much coercion that often contributes to

significant damage that often ranges from minor in errors of the computer system affecting the

database reliability to fires that may wipe out the entire healthcare information. There is thus the

necessity for awareness regarding the intensity of the security breaches in the healthcare system.

The first case involves the phishing emails masked as an official OCR audit notification

targeting different individuals. The phishing emails are mainly disseminated on forged letterhead

of the HHS department and appears as an official communication from the government while

targeting the staff of organizations covered by HIPAA and business partners. The emails

required the recipients to click a link concerning possible addition in the HIPAA Privacy,

Security, and Breach Rules Audit Program (HHS.gov, 2017). The link then leads the individuals

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to a non-governmental website marketing cybersecurity services of a different firm. There is the

necessity for noting that the company is in no way linked with the US Department of Health and

Human Services. The phishing email targeting the different individuals aim at accessing some of

the confidential information through its disguise as official communication which it is not and

then gaining access to the information stored on the accessing devices.

Moreover, a broad trend of threats and related losses often relate to their pervasiveness

and importance in the existing computer setting and their expected growth. This often happens

because of the introduction of the computer systems with operating systems in the health care

that often makes it easier to manage the information of the company. In the recent years HIPAA

privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Audit Program have ensured identification of two

cases. The first instance entailed when a patient logged onto the healthcare system to assess their

insurance options and the healthcare center platform revealed his health status. The revelation of

the healthcare situation of a patient was evident security flow that the as well revealed the

eligibility letters addressed to people in other states (HHS.gov, 2017). Another case involved the

MNsure’s PR machines that often collaborate with the insurance agents and members of the

community towards the creation of a customer service network. However, it became apparent

that customer service system was compromised due to the security breach involving the social

security numbers. The privacy in the healthcare industry is of great significance and curbing it

necessitates the provision of software by the healthcare that ensures efficient identification of a

patient before disposal of information. The introduction of such software will provide adequate

reduction of the risks in the recent electronic based healthcare system.

Part II

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Efficient addressing of the security plan necessitates the understanding of the four aspects

of privacy in the healthcare that include the personal autonomy, respect, dignity, and

individuality. Many writers depict diverse reasons for ensuring effective placement of the high

significance to defending the privacy, security, and safety of the health information while others

regard privacy as rather objectively valuable concerning the aspects that present a form of

acknowledgment of attributes that provide the public their ethical distinctiveness. Consequently,

there is the necessity for ensuring the provision of the patients with the opportunity for making

their personal decisions as they deserve respect just like the rest. The value of the individuals and

their dignity is often of equal value as that of other humans (Sterling, 2015). However, disclosing

the health of a patient to other people often results in the embarrassment of life stigma.

Therefore, there is often the need for assurance of privacy between the physician and the patient

for ultimate confidentiality.

Majority of the physicians often lack respect to most of their patients and are often busy

doing their jobs hence forgetting to pay attention to the well-being of the patients in the rooms.

Consequently, such ignorance of the patients’ interests often makes them feel disrespected and

not well served (Boerner, 2017). Such acts often arise from the fact that some of the practitioners

want to perform other duties faster to channel their attention to other personal issues. The

primary causes of the show of disrespect by the practitioners often entail the lack of effectiveness

and passion with their duties.

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References

BOERNER, C. M. (2017). HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification. Journal Of

Health Care Compliance, 19(1), 31-34.

HHS.gov, (2017). HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Audit Program: United

States Department of Health & Human Services. Retrieved from

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-enforcement/audit/index.html

On [18 September 2017]

Sterling, R. (2015). How to defend your practice against HIPAA violations. Ophthalmology

Times, 40(15), 71-75.

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