The Impact Of RFID In The Healthcare Industry

There is no doubt in that technology has multifaceted benefits but, at the same time, it has forced mankind to feel insecure. Every industry depends upon the data of the customers and the health industry is no more an exception here. The data of each patient is shared to facilitate health itself and for more rigorous and authentic research. Hence, protecting patient data is very important. It is so important that in 1996, the federal government introduced the Health Insurance

Some health institutions believe that all the patients have the powers to control the use of their records and before any file is accessed, the patient must be consulted by the personnel responsible. To others, however, some of the patients may not know the needs of the health industry, and therefore, at least 200 people can be allowed to access their records. According to this group, the only way to improve the patient’s privacy is by reducing the number of people who access the records. Thus, despite the fact that digital files save on cost and time, there is need to focus on some of the issues affecting the privacy of records in the health sector. Therefore, as much as the current law allows sharing of patient information during payments and treatment, caution must be taken to reduce data mining and marketing using the same

This particular goal mainly focused on privacy of the individual. Invasion to privacy is strictly restricted and all the health information about the patient should be used with their consent only. Moreover every health system manager have aware about legal implications currently in practice to protect privacy.

Autonomy, Nonmaleficence, Beneficence, and Justice are four bioethical principles in health care. It seems that all new technologies and devices which are used in different health care fields have been trying to respect these principles. However, sometimes using new technologies in health care could have negative impacts for patients, such as leaking their health information and being accessible to unauthorized persons, but in my opinion, most new technologies are helping health care professionals and patients for better care outcome. One of these technologies is sensors and wearable technology which helps patients to collect their health data and transfer them to the providers. Then, those data are used by health care providers to see if

Another study was conducted on the privacy impact of RFID tags used in medical facilities. The primary concern here is that RFID tags can be used by an unauthorized user. The perpetrator can solicit private information or gain access to medical history records of a patient. Juels (06) offered a novel access control mechanism. A technical solution that involved the use of encryption and symmetric key was suggested.

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.

As we can see now RFID technology is becoming very popular around the world. However, in my opinion, I would like to say that RFID tags pose a risk to personal privacy. RFID tags easily to be stolen by hackers. They could steal your personal information such as your credit card or your passports. For example, now in some states of the U.S, the government allows the citizen to use RFID passports. However, many citizen still disagree to apply RFID passports because they think it contains many issued such as it is vulnerable to wireless attack by hackers (it can be read up to 30 feet away and copying without permission from the RFID owner). In addition, it is even more dangerous when the RFID passports can contain information that is corresponding to the photo of the RFID tags owner. So just think what will happen if someone hack your passports and what they can do with its information from that RFID passport? Therefore, even RFID tags is becoming popular and can be the next generation technology in the real world, but now, in my opinion, I would like to say that RFID still contains many problem that can harm to personal privacy.

Disclaimer which states that the company cannot be held accountable for any problem which arises from the use of the RFID. The Alzheimer patients  should have had a victim’s advocate to look after their interests. The quality of life was diminished for these people when the chips caused cancer.

For example, in Fitbits, users are easily able to access their health data, such as number of steps taken, number of calories burned, etc. In comparison, for pacemakers, patients are often not allowed to access their data at all, thereby restricting access of personal data to just medical professionals and data collectors. When considering that the user in question cannot access their own private data, regulations are imperative in preventing such data from reaching the wrong hands. In this field, medical devices use encryption to deter hackers or other unwanted visitors from accessing sensitive data (Eramo), but as seen from Mark Gasson, it is not guaranteed to work. By infecting an RFID chip in his hand with a virus, Gasson determined that the virus located in his hand was able to infect external systems (Cellan-Jones). Although medical devices proclaim to be secure, the risk of a virus from another piece of technology infecting these devices is high, with extremely serious consequences. It is imperative to continue pressing for answers regarding the secureness of medical devices and push for more knowledge regarding third party servers that may use medical data for reasons other than

Protecting data in the healthcare is extremely important as it contains valuable information about the patient like personally identified health information. The information is vital, as it exhibits a strong relationship between doctor and patient for dealing with any issues the patient might have. It provides, absolute care, and gives better information to a patient or physician required for the course of actions. The consequences that could take place with this information can be data breaches, such as unauthorized access to the information or data in health records, and can result in atypical activities. To avoid this, the data or the information in the Electronic Medical Records must be provided with strong privacy and security laws. International law provides Privacy and Security regulations to protect the data of health care organizations. Despite the laws implemented there are certain data breaches taking place in day-to-day life, which is growing. This paper reviews the privacy and security laws that are implemented and followed in the USA, India, and the European Union and in particular regional laws/ regulations and the differences between them. There are certain reporting obligations and penalties that must be obeyed in case of violation of these laws/ regulations which will discuss here. This paper also

Have you ever been in a situation where you felt that your personal space was violated, or that someone knew something about you that you did not want getting out? In healthcare this is a typical situation, so much that we have entire departments dedicated to making sure that a patient’s information about their health is kept private and is confidential between that patient and their healthcare provider. For this reason, I have chosen to focus this research paper on patient privacy and confidentiality. I will concentrate on the need for protection of patient information, the measures that have been taken on a federal level to ensure protection of patient information, the systems and actions that health care organizations use to ensure security

The author believes that the Health Information Privacy Bill of Rights, developed with the American Psychoanalytic Association, is an important addition to the healthcare institution and spherically needed right now when implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) makes privacy of patient is more important than ever before. Electronic records opens us up to the possibility that millions of confidential information of patients can be simultaneously

For this policy paper I have chosen Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID is able to provide a lot of advantages in the supply chain management, health care system, government operations. RIFD uses electronic magnetic fields for automatically identifying and tracking the tags attached with the objects. The tags contain electronic information. The RFID devices consist of an antenna which emits a radio signals for activating a tag and read and write the electronic data to those. The technology is able to provide a lot of advantages to the users but there are several ethical considerations associated with the use of this technology. Mostly the ethical issues are associated

In light of available security measures and their widespread acceptance within the information security community, there is no excuse for healthcare organizations to fail in fulfilling their duty to protect personal patient information. Guaranteeing the confidentiality and privacy of data in healthcare information is crucial in safeguarding the data of patients as there should be a legal responsibility to protect medical records from unauthorized access.

Just as all other technologies have such difficulties, RFID technology has obstacles to overcome. Two main concerns are discussed in this paper: radio wave technology hindrances such as collisions, and the ethical concerns that entangle this controversial yet extremely helpful technology.