Question

Clinic has had a privacy breach. The clinic manager has asked you to speak to the staff about emerging privacy threats and what administrative and physical factors can be addressed to reduce privacy risks to health information.

Answer 1

** PRIVACY BREACH. ***

INTRODUCTION :-

A threat is any activity that can lead to data loss / corruption through to disruption of normal business operations. Physical threats cause damage to computer systems hardware and infrastructure.

Threat actors are stepping up their efforts to steal health related data, posing myriad new security threats scrambling to defend against the onslaught.

PRIVACY :-

Privacy has deep historical roots, but because of its complexity, privacy has proven difficult .

IMPORTANCE :-

There are a variety of reasons for placing a high value on protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and security of health information, some theorists depict privacy as a basic human good or right with intrinsic value. Privacy as being objectively valuable in itself, as an essential component of human well being. Privacy (autonomy) is a form of recognition of the attributes that give humans their moral uniqueness.

The more common view is that privacy is valuable because it facilitates or promotes other fundamental values, including ideals of personhold. Such as :

* personal autonomy

*Individuality

*Respect

*Dignity and worth as human beings.

MEDICAL INFORMATION :

Medical information is a type of personal information that's becoming increasingly important. Someone might face insurance discrimination if their medical information got out, but it could also be a human right issue,particularly for relevation of a conditon like HIV or the use of medical marijuana However, there's simultaneously a clear need for some medical information to be public : we have to know who has Ebola so that we can take precautions when we are treating them. So, the topic isn't a simple one.

Two other types of personal information are especially dangerous :

* Identification information

* Location information

These 2 information are most directly tied to Human Rights privacy.

Juvenile information is a variant of personal information that specifically relates to children. Some information should be forgotten because kids make mistakes that's should be forgiven also children need to be carefully protected because they can't make the same judgements about releasing their personal information to the public that adults can. There is a large set of laws related to juvenile information such as the US FERPA and COPPA regulations. As with some of the other sorts of personal information, defensive and Human Rights PRIVACY BREACHERS could both occur from juvenile information loss.

TEN PREVENTIVE POINTS FOR HEALTHCARE DATA BREACH :-

* Conduct a risk assessment

* Provide continued HIPAA education to employees

* Monitor device and records

* Encrypt Data and Hardware

* Subnet wireless networks

* Manage identify and access stringently

* Develop a strict BYOD policy

* Examine service level agreements carefully.

Confidentiality safeguards information that is gathered in the context of an intimate relationship. It addresses the issue of how to keep information exchanged in that relationship from being disclosed to third parties I. e, Confidentiality, for example, prevents physicians from disclosing information shared with them by a patient in the course of a physician patient relationship. Unauthorised or inadveretent disclosures of data gained as part of an intimate relationship are BREACHES OF CONFIDENTIALITY.

SECURITY can be defined as the procedural and technical measures required

* To prevent unauthorised access, modification, use and dissemination of data stored or processed in a computer system,

* To prevent any deliberate denial of service

* To protect the systems in its entirely from physical harm.

Security helps keep health records safe from unauthorised use when someone hacks into a computer system, there is a breach of security and also potentially, a breach of confidentiality.