How To Protect Patient Data

Patient Information is essential in health care entities; for identifying, diagnosing and treating individuals. Without personal health advice and documents, providers might not even know who it is they will need to take care of and wouldn’t understand how to take care of a patient.

Tech has made it easier for health care professionals to get their patients’ data; when & where they want to. Today Healthcare Software Development is at all time high and healthcare apps are making things easier in all possible ways but with this convenience comes the demand for safety. The use of technology also makes way for cyber-attacks and rather than providing advantages, can place patients in danger; if the data is managed improperly.

News reports of safety breach in large health care systems are very common now, but it does not mean that medium-sized and small clinics are secure. in fact, cyber thieves see protected records in such clinics as easy pickings.

World Privacy Forum says that a medical record which includes- name, address, social security number, and health ID is considered much costlier than the credit card data, in the online black market. Each medical record can be traded for $50 in comparison to $3 for each credit card record.

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