Question

HIPPA is an important legislative act aimed at protecting health data and information but in today's wired environment, health organizations face threats.

Answer 1

Protection of patient information in the health record is very important and to be kept confidential .The advancement in technology has made everything possible but at the same time has made a track to threat in protecting healthcare data. How secured it may be cyber crime has led to hacking the account and misusing it for monetary purposes by the hackers. Some of the ways the documents which are protected now is an advanced information technology use ,continuous monitoring and screening by the healthcare department by doing risk assessment regularly and periodically. Use of encoding system to protect data.