Informatics Electronic Health records: A boon or privacy nightmare?
Health records are supposed to be private and secure. This article shows how not all health records end up being private and secure. Health records were stored in different ways. People were trying to steal private information. Then you had people that didn't know they could be committing a crime and saw it as no big deal.Health records were supposed to be secure years ago and now. If health records were put in the wrong hands it could be a big deal. Some people might think all doctors could even view their files, but this isn't true. In the article it tells how privacy was very important.
“People are asking whether any kind of electronic records can be made safe. …show more content…
My records should be 100 percent safe, atleast thats what we all want. You can never have a hundred percent guarantee,just like the money in ur bank. We can't trusts banks with all of our money.So that goes for electroic records and paper records arent 100 percent secure. Now electronic records are more in use and more secure than paper records. There has been a lot of stolen paper medical records. On a hospital unit a patient's chart is available to anyone with a white coat and a badge of identification of a cop with the courage to pick up the chart. with an electronic record it is harder for an unauthorized person to get their hands on medical records. “ electronic record systems maintain an audit trail,required by the privacy rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), that
Health records are supposed to be private and secure. This article shows how not all health records end up being private and secure. Health records were stored in different ways. People were trying to steal private information. Then you had people that didn't know they could be committing a crime and saw it as no big deal.Health records were supposed to be secure years ago and now. If health records were put in the wrong hands it could be a big deal. Some people might think all doctors could even view their files, but this isn't true. In the article it tells how privacy was very important.
“People are asking whether any kind of electronic records can be made safe. …show more content…
My records should be 100 percent safe, atleast thats what we all want. You can never have a hundred percent guarantee,just like the money in ur bank. We can't trusts banks with all of our money.So that goes for electroic records and paper records arent 100 percent secure. Now electronic records are more in use and more secure than paper records. There has been a lot of stolen paper medical records. On a hospital unit a patient's chart is available to anyone with a white coat and a badge of identification of a cop with the courage to pick up the chart. with an electronic record it is harder for an unauthorized person to get their hands on medical records. “ electronic record systems maintain an audit trail,required by the privacy rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), that