Privacy and Security Concerns Regarding Electronic Health Information

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: Private and Security Concerns

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Information regarding health information of patients and citizens is supposed to be very private and putting it into a nationwide database makes it liable to access by people who are not supposed to see it . The growing demand for information technology (IT ) in health sector means that a lot of policies have to be drafted and enacted in to protect the privacy of patients (Andrew Richard , 1995 . Generally there are privacy and security concerns that arise and

which can be divided into two general categories . The first concerns are about the release of such sensitive information by institutions that are supposed to handle the data while the second concern is related to how information is handled within the healthcare system and its allied industries (National Research Council , 1997

Any information that is stored electronically is vulnerable to abuse by either internal or external people who may violate the confidentiality policy of those organizations by accessing data that is not supposed to be accessed . By the virtue of one being a worker in a health organization , he or she can abuse the privilege of being able to access different records . This comes about by accessing information for inappropriate reasons like viewing records of friends , neighbors coworkers or even family members and then leaking the information out of the organization (Hossein , 2006 . This internal accessing of data may sometimes lead to manipulation of data but at most time...