Question

Concepts: security breach, security risk assessment, HIPAA violation related to data security, organizational database security, and/or information security network.

Explain how a health care organization could or did get impacted by a type of security and the implications to the organization. How would you prevent this from occurring at your organization?

Answer 1

#. Impact of security breach are :-

- Loss of reputation

- Loss of trust

- Medical errors

- Mistreatment

- Financial loss

#. The healthcare sector must protect the personal information of the patients because the hackers can leak them, and other thieves can use them to conduct medical fraud and other financial gains. Cybersecurity helps in keeping the information of the patient confidential for legal purposes and also prevent cybercrimes

Measures to prevent security breach :-

Increase the cyber security budget.

Conduct a HIPAA and HITECH security risk analysis.

Improve network security.

Separate patient information.

Provide on-going employee training

Securely destroying confidential information