The steps that could be taken to prevent this type of breach from
occurring in the future is to have secured passwords. A company that
can be like a watch dog for the organization making sure
unauthorized employees will try to long into the system. Employees
must be trained and renew their passwords every three to six
months. Safe guard, and a security company that overseas all
patient's information.
Effective privacy and security strategies lead organizational success
because it will help protect their patient's information. Patients will
feel safe when they know that their information is secured. That
means they will bring business. Legal and ethical considerations are
presented in the scenarios is to be mindful of patient’s information.
Following the HIPAA guidelines and privacy. As an organization it is
also a priority to remember that when something like this happen it
affects more than one practice of office because as we all know that
many healthcare providers are link together through electronic
records.
The laws and standards that may be applied are regular security
audits, hardware, software to allow ability to track and review
activities (Oaches and Watters, 2020). Also, data security methods
that will help safeguard and protect PHI, common dara security
methods reauthentication malicious software protection and
evaluation data encryption (Oaches and Watters, 2020).
Oachs, Pamela, K., and Watters, Amy, L. (2020).
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