Mobile health has expanded in the last few years. Specialty offices
are even using video conference and health apps to monitor patients.
A study was done in Amsterdam to view cardiac patient experiences
with mobile health. The patients would be able to monitor their vital
signs and the provider would get the data sent to them, by the
application. As explained by Kauw et al. (2020), a patient that is
having heart palpitations can do an EKG on their watch and send the
information to their cardiologist to review. Each participant of the
study was signed up through mHealth and the provider received the
information from the site. There were some barriers with mHealth,
not all mHealth applications integrated in the electronic medical
record. Making this difficult for the provider to review the data.
Healthcare data breaches can happen at any time and in many ways.
There are cyber-attacks, phishing, ransomware, malware, and medical
identity theft. As described by Drury, T (2019), a survey of 322
cybersecurity professionals in healthcare showed at least one breach
at their place of work in the last two years. With cloud technology,
third party vendors are used, and healthcare organizations are making
sure their standards meet their needs. Being able to use audit trails
can help a healthcare organization better prepare for breaches. Being
able to track that a staff member who works as a scheduler is looking
at patient discharge summaries, can help the practice. If there is a
policy in place stating that job roles have access to different parts of
the electronic health record (EHR), this scheduler will need to be
spoke to and possibly retrained. Audits can also help define which
employees should get access to which parts of the EHR. This can help
IT put permissions on an employee’s access within the EHR.
Reference
Drury, T. (2019, July 15). Preventing health care breaches, lawsuits.
Buffalo Law Journal, 91(28), 13–22.
Kauw, D., Huisma, P. R., Medlock, S. K., Koole, M. A., Wierda, E., Abu-
Hanna, A., Schijven, M. P., Mulder, B. J., Bouma, B. J., Winter, M. M.,
& Schuuring, M. J. (2020). Mobile Health in Cardiac Patients: An
overview on experiences and challenges of stakeholders involved in
daily use and development. BMJ Innovations, 6(4), 184–191.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2019-000418
