Relating to this weeks discussion the one of two articles that I
researched is 'How to Prevent A Data Breach In your Company. The
author goes into detail of what a modern security breach is which is a
uncontained leak of information that is traveling to an untrusted
source, and the techniques to prevent a accidental security breach.
Some of these might be seen as mundane, but in a ever growing
digital world these key steps are absolutely necessary to contain
patient or critical business information. Most of the steps is to restrict
employee access to critical systems, and train employees on how to
reduce errors that can lead to an security breach. Also the article talks
about the best steps to contain the breach, and how to engage
leadership if a possible leak happens involving confidential data. What
I really liked about this article is that its written in every day language
there is no technical wording that can confuse readers, and the
authors put in easy steps for companies for their employees to get
involved with programs to lessen the security breach risk, and
continue to educate employees on what are the latest risks are for
critical information, and what can be done to stop any future leaks, I
consider this a great beginner article on the subject, which can lead to
more employee involvement in the education of security breaches for
their company.
The second article named ' Emerging New Era of Mobile Health
Technologies talks about how mobile health technologies are
changing the way patients are served. In which, the author talks about
how mobile health technologies are being adopted in the healthcare
space as mobile sensors to test blood pressure, and other body tests.
According to the article the general adoption for these technologies
has been growing at a fast pace as providers are learning to use these
technologies to make the patients more comfortable in getting care
from their doctor. In addition, this article goes though on how the
technology is impacting the healthcare sphere, and how legislation c is
being put into place to manage the technology in the worjkplace, and
not being abused for patient health. I think this is a good introduction
of how technology has changed healthcare, and what the future can
hold for the field overall regarding the implementation of such
technologies.
Finally about the posted question above regarding the scenario, I
think that there wasn't any kind of limitations on the improper
disclosure of health information, there wasn't any kind of protocol to
stop the incident before information got out of the facility. I think
how the patient was compromised was when the parents neighbor
decided to view the patients medical information without their
permission for non work related activities. In which that was a
violation of patient privacy, and confidentiality, and the medical coder
was spreading his information around her community made him more
compromised because different parties can see his information and
what his health status is currently. The outcome for that is the
patients information was shared among non recognized parties from
an internal source, and could damage the patient medical background
due to exposed information. The HIM practitioners did not practice
any kind of ethics that are related to ahima, and audit trails can be
useful when viewing patient information it can be used to track the
information being viewed by employees, and where is that
information is being used in the facility overall.
References:
Nead, N. (2022, April 14). Council post: How to prevent a data breach in
your company. Forbes. Retrieved June 4, 2022, from
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2021/07/30/
how-to-prevent-a-data-breach-in-your-company/?sh=edfa15a18da7
Park, Y.-T. (2016, October). Emerging new era of mobile health
technologies. Healthcare informatics research. Retrieved June 4,
2022, from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5116535/
