Question

You are in charge of forming a steering committee to evaluate the security risks at a hospital. Your first order of business is to talk about the differences between privacy, security and confidentiality. How would you explain the differences? Who would you include on the committee? Who should lead this committee? Include reasons for your selection. *Please make your writings legible for reading*

Answer 1

Difference among privacy, confidentiality and security:

Privacy is defined as an individual right to keep his information , data with himself/herself.

confidentiality is a tool in protecting the privacy of data and information from others by having strict policies on access and disclosure

Security is defined as using technology to protect the privacy of data and information like firewalls and encryption.

Security steering committee:

Chief information security officer who leads the team by managing the team as well as communicating the importance of security measures.

Security analyst

Security administrators

Security operations team

nurses

human resource personnel