Healthcare Security Goals

Ultimately, the software, equipment and cloud solutions the companies and vendors provide will have to demonstrate a high quality of security and reliability. Patients’ private medical data as well as their lives are at risk in this new arena of technology.

With the introduction of information technology advancement into the hospital health care system, we must embrace in this technology and must ensure that we have a more efficient and secure system. This will allow us to create measures that will allow us to protect electronic protected health information (ePHI). All data that is being transmitted on any open networks will be protected from any cyber attackers or unauthorized personnel. In order to protect this data, any ePHI data will be sent by encrypting the data to ensure that in the event that it is intercepted it

Privacy of health information has become an area of emphasis across the healthcare industry. It is important to understand what data is protected under federal regulations, how it can be shared, and how to prevent any accidental exposure of protected data. It is possible that data that should be protected can be exposed without anyone even realizing a violation has occurred. Exposure of protected healthcare data can result in medical identity theft and is therefore a very important and hot topic. The security and privacy of healthcare data is necessary to ensure consumer confidence in the healthcare industry and to prevent medical identity theft.

The health care is changing with the advent of Electronic health record. EHR improves coordinated care and promotes easy access to patient care. This helps in improved patient involvement in healthcare and also make them to be better informed. However, there are security and privacy concerns while using EHR systems. Therefore, different security principles are needed to be applied to EHR systems. Information security (InfoSec) principles helps in protecting EHR systems. This principle includes the following:The information is not available to everyone and are not disclosed to unauthorized individuals, processes and entities. Measures are undertaken to ensure that sensitive information should not reach the wrong people while making right information

THREAT MANAGEMENT AND DESASTER RECOVERY FINAL PAPER INTRODUCTION: This paper is a danger evaluation of a Medical venture called "Medco" containing patient information. Imparting Data over a wide zone system is of high imperativeness to specialists, medical attendants and the whole staff. The patient information contains delicate data that is at a danger of being presented to hack endeavors and data break.

In the current era of digitization, with all the data being converted from paper to electronic records, even the healthcare industry has become so dependent on technology. As hospitals are adopting electronic means for data storage, medical results, transactions and billing, utmost care is to be taken to protect a patient’s personal privacy by protecting their electronic health records, which is only possible by enhancing the security and privacy of the hospital’s network. This paper proposes certain security mechanisms for a more controlled and safer access to the healthcare provider’s network, thus being aware of every device trying to access the network and making sure only authorized devices are able to connect, with the help of measures such as, intrusion detection systems to continuously monitor the network, firewalls to ensure endpoint devices comply with security policies and biometrics for identity based network access control.

In a world full of electronics it would only seem logical to have health records electronic. Not only are medical records efficient, reliable, and quick to access, new technology allow patients to access their own personal medical records with a simple to use login and password. “People are asking whether any kind of electronic records can be made safe. If one is looking for a 100% privacy guarantee, the answer is no”(Thede, 2010). At my hospital, upon every admission we ask the patient for a password for friends and family to have to have if they would like an update on the patient 's condition. We do not let visitors come up and see the patient without the patient 's consent. In doing these things, we help to ensure the safety and protection of the patient 's health information and privacy.

With the immense number of smartphones and tablets in healthcare facilities, there is a need for a relevant security policy. There are methods that do help make these devices secure, but the absence of proper policies result in this lapse. Some ways to improve security are by restricting access to protected healthcare information, remote access with multiple authorization requirements, and restrictions on vendor access.

The chapter on Access Control in Medical System is based on the current environment, technologies and past studies performed on safeguarding health records by authentication through fingerprint biometric and smartcard. The chapter explores in depth the current situation faced by the healthcare industry in controlling access to medical records from unauthorised people (Cavoukian, Stoianov & Carter, 2008). According to (Campisi, 2013) medical systems are classified as security–critical systems and controlling access to this system is a critical feature for the healthcare. One critical aspect is ensuring only authorized individuals access medical records while protecting the confidentiality and privacy in patients’ data.

In today’s society, medical records becomes a huge issue. In many organizations such as healthcare, patient confidentiality becomes a high concern. Having internet health services, creates a challenge for compliance in healthcare. Providers have treated application security and infrastructure security independently until now. Access must be secured for clinical applications to alleviate the concern from providers in healthcare. Therefore, IT infrastructure must be protected from hackers, misusing information as well as thieves. (FairWarning, n.d.)

It is critical now more than ever, due to the lack sufficient security, to protect patient data in the healthcare industry. Therefore, in order to accomplish this goal, investigation into the possible causes of inadequate security as well as the other causes of healthcare breaches and cyber-threats must be explored. Without this analysis, patient data will continue to be compromised, which will cause devastating damage to both patients and healthcare organizations. From the extensive research on the outbreak of healthcare data breaches, the major factors that contribute to the increase of this issue were discovered. By thorough analysis of these factors, useful solutions will be developed to decrease the compromise of patient data as well as healthcare organizations implementing better security measures.

This research article examines the security concerns of using mobile technology systems in health care institution. Various methods of ensuring privacy and security of patient’s electronic medical information are addressed. This high quality article is relevant for present day mobile security issues. The authors utilize a host of credible references in the health care and information technology fields.

These medical devices have functionality to communicate via healthcare IT networks in a variety of different ways i.e. wirelessly, across the internet, and from device to device. With this increase in adoption and availability of interconnected medical devices, patients can now receive around-the-clock care, outside the healthcare environment, and even in the comfort of their own home. Consequently, resource demands to administer this patient care is significantly reduced. Healthcare delivery organisations utilize a wide range of networked medical devices from hard-wired monitoring devices such as diagnostic equipment (CT scanners) to implanted medical devices such as defibrillators. The benefits of networking these devices are significant but in using such technology, a new set of risks arise which can impact the safety of a patient. These are security risks, threats and vulnerabilities.

Health care is becoming expensive around the world. As one of the cost-reduction measures, most of the health care providers are moving the patient’s data into electronic format (Electronic Medical Records). Even though this migration is necessary for efficient health care service, it opens up a big can of worms with respect to security and privacy issues. In particular, when the doctors and patients access this medical information through the Internet, there is a large room for cyber security attacks. Given that the senior citizens have

One of the common security issues is the loss of the device. With a personal password which can lock the device, patients’ privacy is somewhat protected. Moreover, some device manufacturers produce the function that can locate the phone when it is missing and remotely remove the data in the device, which can secure users’ privacy. In addition, some developers develop the function that users would have to input password to access the service in those high private apps.