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2-1 Final Project Milestone One: Summary of Problem and Key Stakeholders
HIM 422
SNHU
May 15,2022
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I. Summary of Problem
A. Explanation of the nature of the data breach
In the healthcare sector, breaches of data are very commonly observed. These breaches
are occurring due several types incidents the healthcare settings that include lost laptops to of in
or other devices where the data of the patient is recorded, an insider of the healthcare
organization o either accidentally or purposefully discloses the data of wh the patients to others,
credential-stealing malware and others (Data breaches: the healthcare sector. CIS, 2021). In In
the present case of ABC hospital, the presence of data breach has been alerted to the healthcare
organization where I playing the role a health information management (HIM) director. I am of
have found that the data breach identified protected health information (PHI). this is as In
healthcare organization, there are 7 medical coders who work remotely across different regions.
Among them, one of the coders has revealed a health record data where has been neighbor’s it
mentioned that the patient had inpatient stay for complications from When the patient an HIV.
found that the health data had been shared with others, the patient filed a complaint to the legal
