Relating to this weeks discussion the one of two d 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 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/
