Chapter 4

Case Study

Discussion Questions

 1.      What type of security breaches of medical record are commonly today?

Prevent a Healthcare Security Breach with solutions from Imprivata. As more healthcare organizations move to electronic medical records (EMR), the chances of a Healthcare Security Breach increase significantly. Whether a security breach is intentional or inadvertent, such incidents violate the privacy of patients, damage the credibility of the organization, and may result in penalties for failing to comply with regulations concerning the protection of patient information.

Reference/Source: http://www.imprivata.com/healthcare_security_breach 

2.      What measures are being taken by the government and private industry to safeguard EHR's? 

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule  requires specific measures to safeguard your electronic protected health information to ensure its confidentiality, integrity, and security.

A few of the safety measures built in to electronic health record (EHR) systems to protect your medical record may include:

• “Access control” tools like passwords and PIN numbers, to limit access to patient information to authorized individuals, like the patient's doctors or nurses.
• "Encrypting" stored information. That means health information cannot be read or understood except by someone who can “decrypt” it, using a special “key” made available only to authorized individuals.

Reference/Source: http://www.healthit.gov/patients-families/faqs/what-security-safeguards-are-designed-prevent-electronic-health-records-being

3.       How do you think the implementation of ARRA will affect the privacy of our healthcare and personal data? What breaches do you foresee? How can they be forestalled?

Discussion Questions

1. How does Google's business model use personal data?

 Google is firmly committed to the privacy of our advertisers and users. While Google does add a cookie to a user's computer when he/she clicks on an ad, this cookie expires in 30 days, and Google does not associate a user's search activity with his/her ad click history. Further, Google does not collect or track personally identifying information, and does not reveal individual information to third parties. Users who do not wish to participate in tracking activities can easily disable Google's conversion tracking cookie in their Internet browser's user preferences settings. These users will not be included in your conversion tracking statistics.

Reference/Source: http://www.weegy.com/?ConversationId=F53E8D73

2. What do you think are the major privacy concerns raised by Google's business model and applications?

 I think the major privacy concerns raised by Google's business model and applications are there technology was very open to the public and so others can sneak on it.

3. Do you think Google has taken adequate measures to protect its user's privacy? Explain your answer.