Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Electronic Health Record (EHR) System
Potential threats and measures taken to protect it
Since the early 1980s, information technology have improved and revolutionized every aspect of our lives. We use information technology to do our daily chores like shopping and reading the latest global news at the comfort of our living room. It replaces old challenges with new possibilities. However, one of the areas that had evolved to this new demand in information technology but rather in a slow phase is the healthcare industry. Today’s healthcare includes hospitals and private clinics. A lack of an effective management of data about a disease and the treatment for saving lives can be put at risk.
In previous years medical information was stored …show more content…
Six main factors are integrity, dependability, availability, confidentiality, authenticity and accountability. Patient records involves very sensitive data, which should only be disclosed to authorize users, thus confidentiality of the required data is essential. Integrity and availability of the services are also important. To accomplish the desire measure of information system security, a range of security policy models have been proposed and implemented in healthcare. One of the most widely use of security policy being adopted by medical institutions to protect patients information in a EHR System is the Role Based Access Control …show more content…
Today’s technologies allow users to prove their authenticity and with data encryptions allow data to be transmitted safely over the medium. Data encryption should be at a satisfactory level of security to protect against intruders, thus data integrity have been compromised. User authentication must also be present with the encryption and data transmission process to ensure that the data sent are received by authorized receiver. Other than data encryption, a good firewall should also be implemented on the database server to avoid external intruders from accessing unauthorized
Potential threats and measures taken to protect it
Since the early 1980s, information technology have improved and revolutionized every aspect of our lives. We use information technology to do our daily chores like shopping and reading the latest global news at the comfort of our living room. It replaces old challenges with new possibilities. However, one of the areas that had evolved to this new demand in information technology but rather in a slow phase is the healthcare industry. Today’s healthcare includes hospitals and private clinics. A lack of an effective management of data about a disease and the treatment for saving lives can be put at risk.
In previous years medical information was stored …show more content…
Six main factors are integrity, dependability, availability, confidentiality, authenticity and accountability. Patient records involves very sensitive data, which should only be disclosed to authorize users, thus confidentiality of the required data is essential. Integrity and availability of the services are also important. To accomplish the desire measure of information system security, a range of security policy models have been proposed and implemented in healthcare. One of the most widely use of security policy being adopted by medical institutions to protect patients information in a EHR System is the Role Based Access Control …show more content…
Today’s technologies allow users to prove their authenticity and with data encryptions allow data to be transmitted safely over the medium. Data encryption should be at a satisfactory level of security to protect against intruders, thus data integrity have been compromised. User authentication must also be present with the encryption and data transmission process to ensure that the data sent are received by authorized receiver. Other than data encryption, a good firewall should also be implemented on the database server to avoid external intruders from accessing unauthorized