Question

How does the Confidentiality and Privacy process in the Defense Industry compare with Healthcare? What are the similarity and differences between the two?

Answer 1

Defense industry and healthcare sector both are involved in protecting the lives but slightly in a different aspect. The defense industry guards the nation and protects the entire nation whereas the healthcare sector protects the patient who seek medical help .

The confidentiality a f the privacy ate important thing to be done by both.

The similarities between two are

• The information and data has to be kept confidential at any cost
• Disclosure of confidential information is considered to be a punishable act
• The data of an individual if has to be collected without informed consent then a legal appeal or order has to be got from the judiciary
• The data can be disclosed in case if it is a threat to others or the nation

The difference in both of them are

• Defense industry is governed by the federal government whereas the healthcare sector is seem by the healthcare department
• Disclosure of information in healthcare sector is considered to be fraudulent activity, malpractice
• Disclosure of information in defense industry is considered to be a criminal act ,even death penalty can be ordered .