Assignment 3: Identify 15 research references

Problem Statement

Healthcare facilities should be in a position to acquire, maintain, and share Covid19 electronic health records without fear of information insecurity. Healthcare facilities are collect a lot of information on patients during this pandemic. Such information is substantial to give the patients the assistance they require medically. Besides using the information to provide medical care for the patient, such information is important for other purposes such as acquiring drugs for treatment and other essentials to facilitate treatment.

Besides, healthcare facilities share information among them to be able to contain the situation. Medical researchers, facilities learning about how others are handling volumes of patients, government agencies involved, international organizations such as world health organizations among others are banking on information from healthcare facilities. Despite care employed by the facilities, some information is still making its way to the media. The result is that panic is spreading and confusion on how to effectively control the pandemic spread. The fact that Covid19 is relatively novel has led to mass shutdown around the world. This affects all entirety of life at all angles. It's thus important to maintain the security of such EHR information.

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of the study is to determine the most effective information security techniques that can be implemented by healthcare facilities to ensure the safety of Covid19 electronic health records. Covid19 has affected the world in huge ways hence getting it under control is primary for healthcare personnel. It will be detrimental for a healthcare facility to collect information only for it to be disseminated through improper protocols. Such dissemination can lead to misinformation regarding the pandemic. The ability to bring into place information security will give an avenue for healthcare facilities to secure their information on Covid19. Such security will do a greater good to the medical field with the ability to safeguard and share data freely without fear of the leak.

Research Question

The study will attempt to answer the following research question:

Which information Security techniques are most effective for healthcare facilities to adopt to ensure the security of Covid19 electronic health records?

Significance of the Study

The overall significance of this study is the provision of information security techniques to healthcare facilities. The research on this area will benefit stakeholders in the healthcare industry in ensuring the safety of Covid19 electronic health record data. Such stakeholders include hospitals, clinics, medical researchers, clinics, health departments among others (Dande, 2012). These stakeholders are working towards containing the spread of the pandemic. The health information coming from these institutions is likely to be shared among the stakeholders. That will happen in the quest to keep the disease under control. As stakeholders make attempt to come up with effective measures to control the spread of the virus, it's essential to share the data among them. Leakage from any healthcare facility needs to be avoided and this study will enumerate ways to avoid that. It, therefore, follows that collection, storage, and sharing of such electronic data may be affected by the data breach. The safety of health data will be useful for such stakeholders and will help in implementing measures against covid19. Healthcare facilities and its stakeholders will thus be able to focus their efforts on other activities of controlling the pandemic. That happens with the knowledge that the data gathered related to the pandemic is secure. It is therefore important to research the area to ensure that data does not leak making efforts to fight the ailment not effective.

Reference

Dande, A. et al. (2012). Electronic Health Record: Standards, Coding Systems, Frameworks, and Infrastructures. NJ: Wiley-IEEE Press.