While Financial Identity Theft (FIT) has been an ongoing threat to the safety of American society with its
horror and inconvenience, Medical Identity Theft (MIT) is now an additional risk on the horizon and there
are many perils associated with this burgeoning phenomenon. This paper will examine the physician
perceptions and look at the menacing burden that MIT places on its victims. It will also discuss ways in
which the provider can better address issues by using biometric technology to combat this escalating
problem. Also, MIT can be more damaging than FIT because it can create mayhem for the victim and his
or her medical information when erroneous details have been created in the medical record due to a thief’s
scheming and deceitful usage of healthcare information. The literature suggests that biometric technology
can revolutionize the healthcare industry with scientific tools that can scan your eye, hand or thumbprint
and a person can be easily identified. This technology would add another layer of security to give greater
protection to healthcare users as well as providers. Biometric technology is an exciting untapped resource
that can make an incredible difference in the field of healthcare and PHI. This project will shed some light
on this technology and may help the healthcare community understand the viability of biometrics and how
it can possibly deter MIT.
Company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners and are for educational purposes only. - Medical identity theft has existed in various forms for decades, but it was in 2006 that World Privacy Forum published the first major report about the crime. The report called for medical data breach notification laws and more research about medical identity theft and its impacts. Since that time, medical data breach notification laws have been enacted, and other progress has been made, particularly in the quality of consumer complaint datasets gathered around identity theft, including medical forms of the crime. This report uses new data arising from consumer medical identity theft complaint reporting and medical data breach reporting to analyze and document the geography of medical identity theft and its growth patterns. The report also discusses new aspects of consumer harm resulting from the crime that the data has brought to light
This new publication, Cyber Claims Insight from Aon Benfield’s Cyber Practice Group, empowers readers with the resources and tools they need to understand the cyber landscape, including legal trends, claims and insurance coverage disputes.
Managed Care within Health Care covers a variety of information from nursing homes, policies, Medical, Medicare, out of pocket, and partial payment, management, contracts, government, and the Social Security State Fund. Within this working paper I will discuss a few of these mechanisms that are applied and utilized within ‘Managed Care’ today. A system within a system that brings in 25% of the United States debt.
Company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners and are for educational purposes only. - Medical identity theft has existed in various forms for decades, but it was in 2006 that World Privacy Forum published the first major report about the crime. The report called for medical data breach notification laws and more research about medical identity theft and its impacts. Since that time, medical data breach notification laws have been enacted, and other progress has been made, particularly in the quality of consumer complaint datasets gathered around identity theft, including medical forms of the crime. This report uses new data arising from consumer medical identity theft complaint reporting and medical data breach reporting to analyze and document the geography of medical identity theft and its growth patterns. The report also discusses new aspects of consumer harm resulting from the crime that the data has brought to light
This new publication, Cyber Claims Insight from Aon Benfield’s Cyber Practice Group, empowers readers with the resources and tools they need to understand the cyber landscape, including legal trends, claims and insurance coverage disputes.
Managed Care within Health Care covers a variety of information from nursing homes, policies, Medical, Medicare, out of pocket, and partial payment, management, contracts, government, and the Social Security State Fund. Within this working paper I will discuss a few of these mechanisms that are applied and utilized within ‘Managed Care’ today. A system within a system that brings in 25% of the United States debt.
BIOMETRIC AND RFID TECHNOLOGY FUSSION: A SECURITY AND MONITORING MEASURES TO ...Henry Chukwuemeka Paul
This paper aims at evaluating, compare the RFID and Biometric technology and report result based on the performances in terms of various parameters that is analyzed. Currently, most schools and institutions do have difficulties to monitor their students’ security and attendance system using either RFID Card or biometrics alone, where the procedures are inefficient in monitoring the students’ security and managing their attendance. The application of RFID Card system as a school monitoring system to improve class attendance procedure, automatically monitor the interest group movements and increases their security. Using RFID makes it easier and faster to detect students’ attendance in a lecture class. In this system, the fingerprint recognition is also adopted to enhance the procedure of identifying authentication of student more securely and reliable for facilities management, gateway access and facilities control, it will also help the school management to provide visibility of assets and effective user tracking.
Biometric Technology and Human Factor EngineeringM2SYS Technology
Biometrics as a global industry is evolving rapidly. With each passing day, more news sprouts up about countries adopting biometric identification technology to secure borders, establish free and fair elections, or tighten airport security. Countries like India have embarked on massive identity campaigns to develop documentation that helps facilitate more equitable social benefit distribution and eliminate government waste and corruption. Governments all over the planet are increasingly evaluating and choosing to adopt biometric identification technology to boost security, eliminate fraud, and establish societal parity by ensuring that entitlements reach those for whom they were intended.
However, using biometrics for identification and authentication reaches far beyond tightening security and eliminating fraud and waste. As biometric deployments spill over into the commercial sector, companies are starting to leverage the technology’s power to encourage employee accountability, lower liabilities, increase efficiencies, and strengthen compliance. Biometric used in business vs. government deployments has fundamentally transformed the dimension of using the technology for security only to using it for convenience in addition to security and other concerns.
In order to achieve success in the new commercial landscape, biometric technology vendors who were once solely accustomed to government specs dictating the parameters and scope of a biometric identification project where end users (most often citizens) had no choice on what biometric modalities to use had to become experts at “human factor engineering” – that is, biometric tech vendors had to more closely study the intersection of people, technology, policy, and work across multiple domains using an interdisciplinary approach that drew from cognitive psychology, organizational psychology, human performance, industrial engineering, and economic theory to design and implement biometric systems that are acceptable and successful in a commercial environment.
Technology that identifies you based on your physical or behavioral traits- for added security to confirm that you are who you claim to be.(this ppt is very dear to me as i have given a talk on this topic twice. this also fetched me and migmar first prize at deen dayal upadhyay college- converging vectors - an inter college presentation competition organized by arya bhata science forum)
Blood Donation and Blood Transfusion Services (BTS) are crucial for saving people’s lives. Recently,
worldwide efforts have been undertaken to utilize social media and smartphone applications to make the
blood donation process more convenient, offer additional services, and create communities around blood
donation centers. Blood banks suffer frequent shortage of blood;hence, advertisements are frequently seen
on social networks urging healthy individuals to donate blood for patients who urgently require blood
transfusion. The blood donation processusuallyconsumesa lot of time and effort from both donors and
medical staff since there is no concrete information system that allows donorsand blood donation centers
communicate efficiently and coordinate with each other tominimize time and effort required for blood
donation process. Moreover, most blood banks work in isolation and are not integrated with other blood
donation centers and health organizations which affect the blood donation and blood transfusion services’
quality. This work aims at developing a Blood Donation System (BDS) based on the cutting-edge
information technologies of cloud computing and mobile computing. The proposedsystem facilitates
communication between blood donorsand blood donation centers and integrates the blood information
dispersed among different blood donation centers and health organizations acrossa country.Stakeholders
will be able to use the BDS as an application installed on their smartphones to help them complete the
blood donation process with minimal effort and time. Thisapplication helps people receive notifications on
urgent blood donation calls, know their eligibility to give blood, search for the nearest blood center, and
reserve a convenient appointment using temporal and/or spatial information. It also helps establish a blood
donation community through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
THE 4 R’S – REASON, REDCAP, REVIEW AND RESEARCH - IN A LARGE HEALTHCARE ORGAN...hiij
This paper outlines the journey of a large Australian academic health service in relation to the acquisition,installation and roll out of the REDCap platform (RCP) for the betterment of clinical review (clinical audit) and research data collection. The main aims of the acquisition of the platform were to facilitate data
collection and management for audit and research across the organization in a more sustainable way than had previously been possible. We found the platform to be easily installed and maintained. There was rapid uptake of the platform by a range of health service stakeholders across the audit, research and operational domains. We were also able to successfully integrate data from our corporate clinical data environment,
The REASON Discovery Platform R (REASON) into selected REDCap “applications” using the Dynamic Data Pull (DDP) functionality it provides. In summary the acquisition and installation of REDCap at our health service has been hugely successful and has provided a great facility for use by a large number of organizational stakeholders going forwards into the future.
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Capstone Project
Yaima Ortiz
IDS-4934
March 1st, 2020
Abstract
Topic:
Privacy- What medical information should be confidential? Who, if anybody, should have access to medical records?
Thesis Statement
In healthcare centers and overall privacy is the right of every US citizen that should be protected in all its forms by the healthcare organization.
Rationale
1. The purpose of this paper is to identify why security measures are necessary to protect one’s privacy in the medical industry.
2. There are numerous laws, policies and healthcare organizational rules and regulations and statistics that would be helpful for conducting this research.
3. Privacy of a person whether this is me or you, is important then everything. I want to talk on this topic because I think most of us do not know what is happening to us.
4. I have selected textual analysis of books and available internet sources. The reason of this limited research methodology is that I cannot perform field study because of shortage of time.
Rough Draft Ideas
Identity theft in healthcare industry become a common practice and leads to information leakage that may destroy someone’s life. We can eliminate this human right violation by enforcing effective and practical laws. Healthcare organizations should understand their responsibilities and tighten security to protect information of patients.
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Overview of Privacy Protections with Respect to Medical Records 4
Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry 5
Healthcare is the biggest Target for Cyber Attack 7
Penalties and Punishments for Hacking Personal Information 9
Penalties 9
Devastating Consequences of Healthcare Data Breaches 10
Conclusion 10
Recommendations 11
Bibliography 12
Introduction
While operating in healthcare organizations need to gather patient’s information that is mostly personal information. It is the moral and legal responsibility of health care organizations to protect the information of their patients and do not share it with people outside of the organization without the patient’s consent. Protecting patient’s information is a crucial element of respect and essential for patients' autonomy and trust in the organization — the US healthcare industry currently facing patient mistrust that is caused because of a lack of trust. When patients experience a lack of confidence they do not share their information with a healthcare professional that causes ineffective treatment. In a 2018 study, Levy, Scherer, Zikmund-Fisher, Larkin, Barnes, & Fagerlin concluded that approximately 81.1% of people withheld medically relevant information from their health-care providers. Patients fail to disclose medically relevant information in front of their clinicians undermine their health and cause patient harm (Levy, 2018).
There are numerous components of patient privacy in healthcare that are personal space, religious and cultural affiliations, physical privacy ...
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Page 9 of 15
Capstone Project
Yaima Ortiz
IDS-4934
March 1st, 2020
Abstract
Topic:
Privacy- What medical information should be confidential? Who, if anybody, should have access to medical records?
Thesis Statement
In healthcare centers and overall privacy is the right of every US citizen that should be protected in all its forms by the healthcare organization.
Rationale
1. The purpose of this paper is to identify why security measures are necessary to protect one’s privacy in the medical industry.
2. There are numerous laws, policies and healthcare organizational rules and regulations and statistics that would be helpful for conducting this research.
3. Privacy of a person whether this is me or you, is important then everything. I want to talk on this topic because I think most of us do not know what is happening to us.
4. I have selected textual analysis of books and available internet sources. The reason of this limited research methodology is that I cannot perform field study because of shortage of time.
Rough Draft Ideas
Identity theft in healthcare industry become a common practice and leads to information leakage that may destroy someone’s life. We can eliminate this human right violation by enforcing effective and practical laws. Healthcare organizations should understand their responsibilities and tighten security to protect information of patients.
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Overview of Privacy Protections with Respect to Medical Records 4
Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry 5
Healthcare is the biggest Target for Cyber Attack 7
Penalties and Punishments for Hacking Personal Information 9
Penalties 9
Devastating Consequences of Healthcare Data Breaches 10
Conclusion 10
Recommendations 11
Bibliography 12
Introduction
While operating in healthcare organizations need to gather patient’s information that is mostly personal information. It is the moral and legal responsibility of health care organizations to protect the information of their patients and do not share it with people outside of the organization without the patient’s consent. Protecting patient’s information is a crucial element of respect and essential for patients' autonomy and trust in the organization — the US healthcare industry currently facing patient mistrust that is caused because of a lack of trust. When patients experience a lack of confidence they do not share their information with a healthcare professional that causes ineffective treatment. In a 2018 study, Levy, Scherer, Zikmund-Fisher, Larkin, Barnes, & Fagerlin concluded that approximately 81.1% of people withheld medically relevant information from their health-care providers. Patients fail to disclose medically relevant information in front of their clinicians undermine their health and cause patient harm (Levy, 2018).
There are numerous components of patient privacy in healthcare that are personal space, religious and cultural affiliations, physical privacy.
This white paper discusses the various cyber threats targeting healthcare organizations and the challenges security professionals face in securing access to protected health information.
This white paper discusses the various cyber threats targeting healthcare organizations and the challenges security professionals face in securing access to protected health information.
Reviewing Scams: How Healthcare Leaders Are Fighting Medical Theft At The Hea...Health 2Conf
Through this presentation, Health 2.0 Conference understands and addresses challenges in combating healthcare medical theft scams and fraud while suggesting measures to avoid them.
Company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners and are for educational purposes only.
17 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Medical Identity Theft and Its Serious Offshootsmosmedicalreview
Healthcare providers handling patient medical records and attorneys performing medical record review have to ensure that the records are safe from data breach.
BIOMETRIC AND RFID TECHNOLOGY FUSSION: A SECURITY AND MONITORING MEASURES TO ...Henry Chukwuemeka Paul
This paper aims at evaluating, compare the RFID and Biometric technology and report result based on the performances in terms of various parameters that is analyzed. Currently, most schools and institutions do have difficulties to monitor their students’ security and attendance system using either RFID Card or biometrics alone, where the procedures are inefficient in monitoring the students’ security and managing their attendance. The application of RFID Card system as a school monitoring system to improve class attendance procedure, automatically monitor the interest group movements and increases their security. Using RFID makes it easier and faster to detect students’ attendance in a lecture class. In this system, the fingerprint recognition is also adopted to enhance the procedure of identifying authentication of student more securely and reliable for facilities management, gateway access and facilities control, it will also help the school management to provide visibility of assets and effective user tracking.
Biometric Technology and Human Factor EngineeringM2SYS Technology
Biometrics as a global industry is evolving rapidly. With each passing day, more news sprouts up about countries adopting biometric identification technology to secure borders, establish free and fair elections, or tighten airport security. Countries like India have embarked on massive identity campaigns to develop documentation that helps facilitate more equitable social benefit distribution and eliminate government waste and corruption. Governments all over the planet are increasingly evaluating and choosing to adopt biometric identification technology to boost security, eliminate fraud, and establish societal parity by ensuring that entitlements reach those for whom they were intended.
However, using biometrics for identification and authentication reaches far beyond tightening security and eliminating fraud and waste. As biometric deployments spill over into the commercial sector, companies are starting to leverage the technology’s power to encourage employee accountability, lower liabilities, increase efficiencies, and strengthen compliance. Biometric used in business vs. government deployments has fundamentally transformed the dimension of using the technology for security only to using it for convenience in addition to security and other concerns.
In order to achieve success in the new commercial landscape, biometric technology vendors who were once solely accustomed to government specs dictating the parameters and scope of a biometric identification project where end users (most often citizens) had no choice on what biometric modalities to use had to become experts at “human factor engineering” – that is, biometric tech vendors had to more closely study the intersection of people, technology, policy, and work across multiple domains using an interdisciplinary approach that drew from cognitive psychology, organizational psychology, human performance, industrial engineering, and economic theory to design and implement biometric systems that are acceptable and successful in a commercial environment.
Technology that identifies you based on your physical or behavioral traits- for added security to confirm that you are who you claim to be.(this ppt is very dear to me as i have given a talk on this topic twice. this also fetched me and migmar first prize at deen dayal upadhyay college- converging vectors - an inter college presentation competition organized by arya bhata science forum)
Blood Donation and Blood Transfusion Services (BTS) are crucial for saving people’s lives. Recently,
worldwide efforts have been undertaken to utilize social media and smartphone applications to make the
blood donation process more convenient, offer additional services, and create communities around blood
donation centers. Blood banks suffer frequent shortage of blood;hence, advertisements are frequently seen
on social networks urging healthy individuals to donate blood for patients who urgently require blood
transfusion. The blood donation processusuallyconsumesa lot of time and effort from both donors and
medical staff since there is no concrete information system that allows donorsand blood donation centers
communicate efficiently and coordinate with each other tominimize time and effort required for blood
donation process. Moreover, most blood banks work in isolation and are not integrated with other blood
donation centers and health organizations which affect the blood donation and blood transfusion services’
quality. This work aims at developing a Blood Donation System (BDS) based on the cutting-edge
information technologies of cloud computing and mobile computing. The proposedsystem facilitates
communication between blood donorsand blood donation centers and integrates the blood information
dispersed among different blood donation centers and health organizations acrossa country.Stakeholders
will be able to use the BDS as an application installed on their smartphones to help them complete the
blood donation process with minimal effort and time. Thisapplication helps people receive notifications on
urgent blood donation calls, know their eligibility to give blood, search for the nearest blood center, and
reserve a convenient appointment using temporal and/or spatial information. It also helps establish a blood
donation community through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
THE 4 R’S – REASON, REDCAP, REVIEW AND RESEARCH - IN A LARGE HEALTHCARE ORGAN...hiij
This paper outlines the journey of a large Australian academic health service in relation to the acquisition,installation and roll out of the REDCap platform (RCP) for the betterment of clinical review (clinical audit) and research data collection. The main aims of the acquisition of the platform were to facilitate data
collection and management for audit and research across the organization in a more sustainable way than had previously been possible. We found the platform to be easily installed and maintained. There was rapid uptake of the platform by a range of health service stakeholders across the audit, research and operational domains. We were also able to successfully integrate data from our corporate clinical data environment,
The REASON Discovery Platform R (REASON) into selected REDCap “applications” using the Dynamic Data Pull (DDP) functionality it provides. In summary the acquisition and installation of REDCap at our health service has been hugely successful and has provided a great facility for use by a large number of organizational stakeholders going forwards into the future.
Page 9 of 15Capstone ProjectYaima OrtizIDS-4934.docxkarlhennesey
Page 9 of 15
Capstone Project
Yaima Ortiz
IDS-4934
March 1st, 2020
Abstract
Topic:
Privacy- What medical information should be confidential? Who, if anybody, should have access to medical records?
Thesis Statement
In healthcare centers and overall privacy is the right of every US citizen that should be protected in all its forms by the healthcare organization.
Rationale
1. The purpose of this paper is to identify why security measures are necessary to protect one’s privacy in the medical industry.
2. There are numerous laws, policies and healthcare organizational rules and regulations and statistics that would be helpful for conducting this research.
3. Privacy of a person whether this is me or you, is important then everything. I want to talk on this topic because I think most of us do not know what is happening to us.
4. I have selected textual analysis of books and available internet sources. The reason of this limited research methodology is that I cannot perform field study because of shortage of time.
Rough Draft Ideas
Identity theft in healthcare industry become a common practice and leads to information leakage that may destroy someone’s life. We can eliminate this human right violation by enforcing effective and practical laws. Healthcare organizations should understand their responsibilities and tighten security to protect information of patients.
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Overview of Privacy Protections with Respect to Medical Records 4
Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry 5
Healthcare is the biggest Target for Cyber Attack 7
Penalties and Punishments for Hacking Personal Information 9
Penalties 9
Devastating Consequences of Healthcare Data Breaches 10
Conclusion 10
Recommendations 11
Bibliography 12
Introduction
While operating in healthcare organizations need to gather patient’s information that is mostly personal information. It is the moral and legal responsibility of health care organizations to protect the information of their patients and do not share it with people outside of the organization without the patient’s consent. Protecting patient’s information is a crucial element of respect and essential for patients' autonomy and trust in the organization — the US healthcare industry currently facing patient mistrust that is caused because of a lack of trust. When patients experience a lack of confidence they do not share their information with a healthcare professional that causes ineffective treatment. In a 2018 study, Levy, Scherer, Zikmund-Fisher, Larkin, Barnes, & Fagerlin concluded that approximately 81.1% of people withheld medically relevant information from their health-care providers. Patients fail to disclose medically relevant information in front of their clinicians undermine their health and cause patient harm (Levy, 2018).
There are numerous components of patient privacy in healthcare that are personal space, religious and cultural affiliations, physical privacy ...
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Page 9 of 15
Capstone Project
Yaima Ortiz
IDS-4934
March 1st, 2020
Abstract
Topic:
Privacy- What medical information should be confidential? Who, if anybody, should have access to medical records?
Thesis Statement
In healthcare centers and overall privacy is the right of every US citizen that should be protected in all its forms by the healthcare organization.
Rationale
1. The purpose of this paper is to identify why security measures are necessary to protect one’s privacy in the medical industry.
2. There are numerous laws, policies and healthcare organizational rules and regulations and statistics that would be helpful for conducting this research.
3. Privacy of a person whether this is me or you, is important then everything. I want to talk on this topic because I think most of us do not know what is happening to us.
4. I have selected textual analysis of books and available internet sources. The reason of this limited research methodology is that I cannot perform field study because of shortage of time.
Rough Draft Ideas
Identity theft in healthcare industry become a common practice and leads to information leakage that may destroy someone’s life. We can eliminate this human right violation by enforcing effective and practical laws. Healthcare organizations should understand their responsibilities and tighten security to protect information of patients.
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Overview of Privacy Protections with Respect to Medical Records 4
Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry 5
Healthcare is the biggest Target for Cyber Attack 7
Penalties and Punishments for Hacking Personal Information 9
Penalties 9
Devastating Consequences of Healthcare Data Breaches 10
Conclusion 10
Recommendations 11
Bibliography 12
Introduction
While operating in healthcare organizations need to gather patient’s information that is mostly personal information. It is the moral and legal responsibility of health care organizations to protect the information of their patients and do not share it with people outside of the organization without the patient’s consent. Protecting patient’s information is a crucial element of respect and essential for patients' autonomy and trust in the organization — the US healthcare industry currently facing patient mistrust that is caused because of a lack of trust. When patients experience a lack of confidence they do not share their information with a healthcare professional that causes ineffective treatment. In a 2018 study, Levy, Scherer, Zikmund-Fisher, Larkin, Barnes, & Fagerlin concluded that approximately 81.1% of people withheld medically relevant information from their health-care providers. Patients fail to disclose medically relevant information in front of their clinicians undermine their health and cause patient harm (Levy, 2018).
There are numerous components of patient privacy in healthcare that are personal space, religious and cultural affiliations, physical privacy.
This white paper discusses the various cyber threats targeting healthcare organizations and the challenges security professionals face in securing access to protected health information.
This white paper discusses the various cyber threats targeting healthcare organizations and the challenges security professionals face in securing access to protected health information.
Reviewing Scams: How Healthcare Leaders Are Fighting Medical Theft At The Hea...Health 2Conf
Through this presentation, Health 2.0 Conference understands and addresses challenges in combating healthcare medical theft scams and fraud while suggesting measures to avoid them.
Company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners and are for educational purposes only.
17 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Medical Identity Theft and Its Serious Offshootsmosmedicalreview
Healthcare providers handling patient medical records and attorneys performing medical record review have to ensure that the records are safe from data breach.
Corporate role in protecting consumers from the risk of identity theftIJCNCJournal
The Internet has made it possible for users to be robbed of their reputation, money and credit worthiness by
the click of a mouse. The impact of identity theft severely limits victims’ ability to participate in commerce,
education and normal societal functions. This paper evaluates resurgence in syndicated cyber attacks,
which includes but not limited to identity theft, corporate espionage and cyber warfare taking advantage of
the Internet as a medium of operations. The paper highlights the increase of cyber related attacks in the
past ten years due to lack of transatlantic international corporation between participating countries,
coherent information security policies, data aggregation and sound international laws to facilitate
prosecution of perpetrators. The cyber space coupled with availability of free hacking tools has contributed
to resurgence in syndicated identity theft, corporate espionage and identity theft by organized crime
elements taking advantage of the Internet as a medium of operations. This paper presents conclusive
solution that users, organizations and consumers can enact to protect themselves from the threat of cyber
attacks culminating into identity theft, financial loss or both.
Systems Thinking on a National Level, Part 2Drew David.docxperryk1
Systems Thinking on a National Level, Part 2
Drew Davidson, Eric Sinclair Banyon, Shady Navarro, Shalamar Santana, Ziomara Pagan, & Stephanie Jean Coute
MHA/505
February 11, 2019
Rachael Kehoe
Running head: SYSTEMS THINKING ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, PART 2
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SYSTEMS THINKING ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, PART 2
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Systems Thinking on a National Level, Part 2
Cybersecurity breaches in the Healthcare industry pose a significant threat to those organizations. According to Gordon et al., cybersecurity breaches not only affect the patient’s information but it can also affect the organization's creditability (2017). When an organization creditability comes into question due to a cybersecurity breach, that organization may lose customers due to the fear of their information not being appropriately protected. In Healthcare it is crucial that we understand the impact of cybersecurity breaches. Most of the major hospital in the United States are using electronic medical records (EMR). A lot of hackers are using phishing methods to trick hospital and breaching their security protocol by tricking staff members into disclosing sensitive and personal information (Winder, 2014). Therefore, the following will discuss way cyber security breaches happen in the healthcare industry and way to prevent them from happening in the future.
Cyber Security Breach Diagram
Malicious and Non-Malicious
Cyber security breaches in healthcare can happen in several different ways. These different types of breaches can either be malicious or non-malicious. A malicious cyber security breech in healthcare, is when an individual or individuals purposely hacked into and attack or gain unauthorized access to members PII. Unauthorized access (such as hacking) to protected healthcare systems is the result of malicious behavior, things like holding the system ransom or stealing private information are acts of malicious behavior (Katz, 2018). Penetrating a system manually and disabling the systems defenses or by downloading software programs are other types of malicious behavior. Hacking is a malicious behavior, but just because the system is hack doesn’t necessarily mean any personal information is compromised. A number malicious cyber security breach may not be done intentionally but can cause just as many issues as a malicious cyber security breech. When data is unintentionally left exposed to an authorized access it is a non-malicious behavior. Cyber security breaches in healthcare can be the result of employee error or negligence. In healthcare malicious behavior is a portion of the inflow of cyber security breaches and non-malicious behavior is the portion of the outflow of a cyber security breech.
Eavesdropping
As a group, we have identified a multitude of cybersecurity breaches that are growing concerns amongst the healthcare providers and companies that offer their services to the community. Another one of these concerns’ hails in the form of eavesdropping. Eavesdropping is a d.
Reasons for the Popularity of Medical Record TheftOPSWAT
After a slew of data breaches in 2014, the FBI warned the healthcare industry that cyber-criminals would be directing more attention their way in 2015. The healthcare industry has become an increasingly valuable target for cyber thieves, and in some cases, a much easier target to attack, due to their often less than adequate investment in cyber security. What is it about the healthcare industry that has captured the cyber criminals' interest in the last few years?
This white paper covers various topics including industry data breach statistics, the value of credit card data versus medical record data, healthcare spending on cyber security and the impact of BYOD on industry vulnerability to data breaches. This white paper also highlights various solutions for protecting medical record data including multi-scanning, email security and the protection of endpoint devices.
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Running head: DATA PRIVACY 1
DATA PRIVACY 10
Short- and Long-Term Effects of Sharing Personal and Medical Data
1. Introduction
The advancement in technology has led to the production of a large volume of human information for economic and medicinal uses. Information plays a significant part in the identification of social issues and helps effective device solutions to daily problems in human life. Although personal and medical info is essential, there are at times when people who have access to the data misuse it for financial gains. When it comes to data privacy, a lot of controversies exists as most people are unaware of their right to privacy. People use internet services where they input sensitive personal or medical data. Most online platforms such as social media have become a significant source of traffic for advertising consumer products and services.
Most websites use the information which the users enter and optimize the searches on the internet. Search engines such as Google use browser cookies to direct specific ads to some clients depending on the critical works in the history of individual searches. Online targeted adverts seem like exploitation of internet users or a form of manipulating people to buy some products from an online store. The psychology of the ads employs smart algorithms which use human information to identify what someone likes on the internet. It is a form of attracting potential clients or generating substantial traffic to a website. As the online adverts become a social issue, there is a need for awareness concerning the impacts of sharing personal or medical info over the internet. Some people claim that information leakage leads to misuse of human information and hence there is a need to educate individuals on temporary and lasting consequences of sharing personal info.
2. Personal Data
In Europe, personal info means more than human names alone. A simple detail is shown in the identification documents, bills, and other critical documents which reveal the identity of an individual. Information is a broad field of knowledge which helps Europeans to be aware of their cultural identity, internet addresses, and even critical locational data. In Europe and other modern countries with advanced internet infrastructure, an IP address is personal information which is essential for human identification (ICO, 2018). Own names, addresses, and location data identifies are used to keep a human updated with the time of his location since it is provided by the satellites, and hence information plays an essential role in the process of identifying what people who use the internet. Internet service users do love various things which they search on the internet in their life and the intelligence gathered is then applied in designing catchy adverts which generate traffic to people and benefit some individuals.
There is various information which people input in website forms to open accounts on th.
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(Executive Summary)MedStar Health Inc, a leader in the healthcSilvaGraf83
(Executive Summary)
MedStar Health Inc, a leader in the healthcare industry regionally and nation-wide, is a constant target of the malicious attempts of cyber criminals. Over the past 6 years MedStar Health Inc. has faced several instances of data breach most notably, the 2016 breach that compromised 370 computer systems and halted its operations. As the organization continues to digitize and broaden the use of electronic medical records across its facilities, the threat of cyber-attack remains even more pervasive. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of MedStar Health Inc cybersecurity vulnerabilities, examine the overall causes and impact of the breaches and explore solutions to meet the organization’s cybersecurity challenges.
With a focal point on MedStar Health breaches, a literature-based study was conducted, and various news articles, academic journals and company publications were analyzed. It was found that the 2016 and 2020 data breaches were attacks on the organization’s internet servers. The 2020 hack compromised the records of 668 patients, whereas the 2016 hack was a result of a ransomware infection that compromised 7500 individuals’ records and halted the organizations’ operations. The cost of the virus infection was greater than the $19,000 ransom requested due to additional recovery and remediation costs. It was also revealed that the 2019 breach was due to human error.
To best combat the efforts of cyber criminals, it is recommended that MedStar Health Inc. place greater emphasis on cyber awareness training for employees/professionals, implementing multiple factor authentications and a strong password and identity management system to reinforce its IT infrastructure against future hacks. Failure to effectuate these measures pose significant risk to MedStar Health Inc., its affiliates and patients that extend beyond ransom payments, fines, imprisonment, lawsuits and costs incurred for subsequent identity theft protection services. The damage caused by data security breaches may prove fatal for patients, the company’s most valued asset, compromising public perception and the company’s mission to provide the highest quality of medical care and build long-term relationships with the patients they serve.)
Actual Technical Report
MedStar Medical Vs. Cybercrime
In the health sector, experts "see persistent cyber-attacks as the single greatest threat to the protection of healthcare data" (Moffith & Steffen, 2017). To the world at large, this is not the most absurd news or revelation. Healthcare data embodies some of the most marketable information, and for the black market this is Eldorado – the fictional tale of the city of gold. Healthcare organizations are tasked with fighting the uphill battle of providing quality medical care to their number one stakeholder – patients – while also ensuring that their valuable information is kept safe and secure. Despite their efforts, healthcare organizations sometimes fail in ...
(Executive Summary)MedStar Health Inc, a leader in the healthcMoseStaton39
(Executive Summary)
MedStar Health Inc, a leader in the healthcare industry regionally and nation-wide, is a constant target of the malicious attempts of cyber criminals. Over the past 6 years MedStar Health Inc. has faced several instances of data breach most notably, the 2016 breach that compromised 370 computer systems and halted its operations. As the organization continues to digitize and broaden the use of electronic medical records across its facilities, the threat of cyber-attack remains even more pervasive. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of MedStar Health Inc cybersecurity vulnerabilities, examine the overall causes and impact of the breaches and explore solutions to meet the organization’s cybersecurity challenges.
With a focal point on MedStar Health breaches, a literature-based study was conducted, and various news articles, academic journals and company publications were analyzed. It was found that the 2016 and 2020 data breaches were attacks on the organization’s internet servers. The 2020 hack compromised the records of 668 patients, whereas the 2016 hack was a result of a ransomware infection that compromised 7500 individuals’ records and halted the organizations’ operations. The cost of the virus infection was greater than the $19,000 ransom requested due to additional recovery and remediation costs. It was also revealed that the 2019 breach was due to human error.
To best combat the efforts of cyber criminals, it is recommended that MedStar Health Inc. place greater emphasis on cyber awareness training for employees/professionals, implementing multiple factor authentications and a strong password and identity management system to reinforce its IT infrastructure against future hacks. Failure to effectuate these measures pose significant risk to MedStar Health Inc., its affiliates and patients that extend beyond ransom payments, fines, imprisonment, lawsuits and costs incurred for subsequent identity theft protection services. The damage caused by data security breaches may prove fatal for patients, the company’s most valued asset, compromising public perception and the company’s mission to provide the highest quality of medical care and build long-term relationships with the patients they serve.)
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MedStar Medical Vs. Cybercrime
In the health sector, experts "see persistent cyber-attacks as the single greatest threat to the protection of healthcare data" (Moffith & Steffen, 2017). To the world at large, this is not the most absurd news or revelation. Healthcare data embodies some of the most marketable information, and for the black market this is Eldorado – the fictional tale of the city of gold. Healthcare organizations are tasked with fighting the uphill battle of providing quality medical care to their number one stakeholder – patients – while also ensuring that their valuable information is kept safe and secure. Despite their efforts, healthcare organizations sometimes fail in ...
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The healthcare industry is very technologically advanced but it also has huge security flaws, making it an easy target for cyber-criminals. If we add this to the immense amount of highly sensitive information that is managed by hospitals, pharmacies and health insurance providers, plus the high price that it could be sold for on the black market where a medical history is much more valuable than a credit card, we are able to understand how this was the most attacked industry last year.
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PLEASE POST EACH DISCUSSION SEPARATELYEach healthcare organisamirapdcosden
PLEASE POST EACH DISCUSSION SEPARATELY
Each healthcare organization has its own internal policies related to how data is managed. There are also
federal guidelines and regulations
regarding the use of patient data. The data harvested by healthcare organizations is no longer uniquely derived from HIT systems.
Wearable technologies
have emerged in the market. Mega companies like Apple and Samsung, have also teamed up with some telehealth platforms to connect doctors, institutions, and insurance companies.
Evaluate the impact of data derived from wearable technology on healthcare technology.
Include the following aspects in the discussion:
Select
Apple's Health Kit
or another consumer platform of your choice.
Discuss how the consumer wearable market is changing the healthcare delivery process.
Summarize why cybersecurity continues to be a major obstacle to consumer wearable adoption specifically in the H.I.T. space.
Discuss your personal perspective on how the lack of ethnic diversity in data collection impacts the future of healthcare research.
REPLY TO 2 OF MY CLASSMATES DISCUSSION TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE. MINIMUM OF 150 WORDS EACH
CLASSMATE POST 1
The Apple Health Kit and the many other wearable device technology is creating data in a bountiful way. What the Health Kit does is collect the relevant data and process it specifically for the person wearing the device. The device monitors things such as blood pressure, heart rate, calories burned in a day etc. and that data can be directly sent to your doctor as well. The wearable market is impacting healthcare in that it is making it more accessible, and your data is becoming more personable. If something is on you every day it will learn your habits, your sleep patterns, your calories burned each day and be able to tell you where improvements could be made and commend a healthy change. According to the International Journal of Recent Research Aspects the number of connected medical devices is expected to increase from 10 billion to 50 billion over the next decade (Chawala, 2020). With an increased number of connected devices, it also increases the likelihood of someone accessing private information that is not a health care team member. Cyber security is becoming as important as homeland security as most attackers can do the same damage anonymously and behind a computer screen. The problem with wearable devices is that they are connected mainly via Bluetooth which is a public network were others could see the device connected. Secondly, the data that is being sent or monitored could be interfered while in transmission or an apple watch or device could be stolen that has all the owner’s information freely on it. Despite the tracking and privacy networks they have installed, it is easily overcome or stolen off a wrist.
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DOI: 10.5121/hiij.2016.5102 11
BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY TOWARDS PREVENTION
OF MEDICAL IDENTITY THEFT: PHYSICIANS’
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Tennessee
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identifying information such as health insurance or social security number without the individuals
knowledge or permission to obtain medical services or goods or to obtain money by falsifying
claims for medical services and falsifying medical records to support those claims.”(Mancino,
2014) As a result, MIT has become a huge problem in the health care arena. It can be so much
more devastating than the crime of financial identity theft and is extremely disturbing because
MIT can affect anyone who is the holder of a medical or health insurance card.
“Biometric technologies are automated methods for identifying a person or verifying a person’s
identity based on the person’s physiological or behavioral characteristics.”(Radack, n.d.)
Biometric technology is not new; however, based on the reading, it is not being used
overwhelmingly by the healthcare community. With the proliferation of MIT in the American
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infrastructure, the door has been opened to more data breaches, added security issues and
wrongdoers scamming victims’ medical identity. It is now a huge reality and far too common.
Financial Identity Theft (FIT) was relatively unknown twenty years ago. Fast forward to 2015
and it appears that few professionals and consumers are aware of its evil twin medical identity
theft and the snowball effect that it has on the victim as well as the American economy. Pam
Dixon, Executive Director, of the World Privacy Forum brought attention to MIT by researching
and writing the first known report on the crime in May 2006. (Dixon, P. & Gellman, B., 2006) It
is now on the horizon as a moderately talked about topic. While FIT has been more of the hot
subject matter and news reports have stated that FIT has cost the US billions of dollars annually,
the toll can be even greater if MIT is the crime against an individual. (Dixon, et al)
Indeed, it is almost impossible to believe that in the not so distant past, FIT was a perplexing and
a rather ambiguous crime. This infraction has reached exponential levels and Congress passed the
Identity theft and Assumption Deterrence Act to respond to the growing problem of identity theft.
(Identity theft overview, n.d.) Now MIT has taken center stage and is invasive in all areas and
difficult at best to resolve. It has become evident that with the dawn of the new millennium that
identity thieves are finding more clever ways to steal other peoples’ personal information that
includes not just social security numbers and credit cards but health care insurance cards. MIT is
an increasing perplexity in this society and can cause more headaches than the theft of the
beloved plastic money. Since The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services started
keeping records on MIT in 2009, it has found that the medical records of between 27.8 million
and 67.7 million people have been breached. (Ollove, 2014)
Recently, a small online Medical Identity Theft Knowledge Survey was administered by The
Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) and 167 responses were received. A mere 13.8 percent
claimed they understood the meaning of medical identity theft; however, 42.5 percent had to be
excluded for the remainder of the survey questions because they had no concept as towhat
medical identity theft is. Sadly, MIT is not on most people’s consciousness. (Mannino, 2014)
If an impostor accesses your healthcare care card to receive services at a hospital or doctor’s
office and the claim is submitted for reimbursement to the insurance company for his or her
healthcare fees, this can be destructive to the holder of the medical insurance card financial well-
being and medical life. What about diagnoses that have nothing to do with the victim’s previous
medical history? How can a person explain an STD diagnosis or a blood borne illness? What if
the victim is given the incorrect blood type when receiving a blood transfusion? The diagnosis
three months ago indicated that the person is in prime condition yet Stage IV colon cancer is now
the ailment. (Linder, 2014) Of course, instances such as the aforementioned should raise red
flags and give an insurance company reasons to question those situations. Will the victim be able
to correct his or her record? How many records are out there for the victim? How many health
care practitioners has the perpetrator seen? What type of services has the perpetrator been given?
These are some of the questions that can bombard the mind and life of the innocent victim.
It is unusually challenging to correct inaccurate information when an MIT breach is exposed.
Sensitive information may have already been released to other medical providers, medical
clearinghouses or insurers. (Rebstock, 2009) Moreover, victims can be harassed by debt
collectors, may experience loss of or difficulty finding work, may be rejected for insurance
coverage and may even find that wrongful accusations of criminal activity have been imposed on
them. Providers can also be victims. Having to return money to insurance companies, face
possible litigation and civil penalties as well as deal with negative mediaand a decline in
consumer confidence can weigh heavily on providers. (Rebstock, 2009)
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MIT happens to be more profitable than financial identity theft. Apilfered Social Security number
is anticipated to have a street value of $1 per identity while ill-gotten medical identity information
can fetch on average $50 per identity. (Rebstock, 2009)Personal information can be obtained by
thieves through lost or stolen wallets, purses, dishonest medical personnel, or perhaps family
members and colleagues. (Medical id theft, n.d.) Also, there are people who rummage through
outdoor trash receptacles who find medical documents that are not shredded which contain
personal information that can be used for their fraudulent gain. It is unfortunate; however, reports
estimate that 33% of medical ID theft happens when an acquaintance or even a family member
uses an individual’s medical information without their consent or knowledge. (Medical id theft,
n.d.)
The primary objective of this study is to assess physicians’ perceptions regarding the use of
biometric technology as a deterrent against MIT. Data will be examined from a web based survey
of physicians within the Memphis Medical Society to determine if they are aware of biometric
technology and if they are familiar with the term medical identity theft.
2. TYPES OF BIOMETRICS
Biometrics come in a number of different forms and this paper will discuss seven of them. The
simplest and most common is the fingerprint.Nearly everyone has a fingerprint unless there has
been some type of accident to disfigure the fingers. It is safewith no hassle. Police programs and
crime prevention agencies such as the FBI have used fingerprint technology for decades.
(Fingerprints,n.d.)The biometric modalityknown as speaker or voicerecognition uses an
individual’s voice for detection purposes. It is a different technology than speech recognition
which recognizes words as they are pronounced anddoes not fall into the category of a biometric.
The method of speaker recognition depends on features which are impacted by the physical
configuration of an individual’s vocal tract and the individual’s behavioral characteristics.(Voice
recognition, n.d.)
Palm print is similar to the fingerprint because it deals with the ridge impression of the hand.
History shows that the handprint was used when illiterate people did not have the education to
know how to sign their names. While it has been available for more than a century, it is a
technology that has lagged behind in automation because of constraints in computerization
systems and operations. (Palm print, n.d.)
Facial recognition relies on the fine points of spatial geometry to differentiate the features of the
face and analyze them for identification.(Woodward, Horn, Gatune.& Thomas, 2003) This
biometric technology has been used to spot shoplifters in stores, and pinpoint criminals and
terrorists in urban areas. In the casinos facial recognition has been used to identify card counters
or other undesirables where gambling is the business. (Woodward, et al.)Although, the
technology has not yet been perfected, it is developing and has tremendous potential. (Woodward,
et al.)
One of the most well-known biometric technologies is retinal scanning; however, it is extremely
costly.This technology was discovered in the 1980s. Retinal scans map the
distinctiveconfigurations of an individual’s retina.Within the retina are blood vessels which
absorb light more easily than the tissue which encloses it and it is easily identified with the proper
lighting. (King, 2013)
The most unique feature visible on the human body is the iris. Fortunately, no two irises are
alike. Even identical twins have dissimilar iris configurations. There is much detail in the iris with
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its variability andlack of genetic dependence. Also, it has the suitability for imaging without
physical contact which could potentially make the iris an excellent personal identifier. (Eye
controls, n.d.)
The physical activity of signing, such as the stroke order, the pressure applied and the speed are
measurements and analysis of the biometric signature recognition system. (Signature biometrics,
n.d.) “Dynamic signature devices should not be confused with electronic signature capture
systems that are used to capture a graphic image of the signature and are common in locations
where merchants are capturing signatures for transaction authorizations.” (Mayhew, 2012)
Unfortunately, there may be issues with this technology since the signature can change over time.
3. METHOD
Twenty-three questionsurvey was administeredvia email to the 1403 Memphis Medical Society
members. This community of physicians was chosen because it had a high volume of potential
participants. The survey was initiated via email on June 23, 2015 and closed on July 7, 2015.
4. RESULTS
The study indicate that physicians within their respective disciplines would be willing to accept
change within their current state of affairs but cost appeared to be a major reason for not
implementing this equipment. The sample size could have been expanded by including
receptionists, business office managers and more of the individuals who actually deal with the
clients and their presentation of insurance paperwork daily. Personal interviews would probably
prompt better information regarding participants’ knowledge and attitudes and offer the
opportunity to clarify vague or confusing questions.
CONCLUSION
MIT is seen as a tremendous problem and biometric technology is recommended as being a
possible protective measure to prevent that criminal activity. It must also be noted that MIT is an
intricate and nefarious crime because it totally violates the victim in the most intimate areas of
their lives. While HIPAA is stringent, it does not address MIT. (Mancini, 2014)Unfortunately,
because there are no laws which really concentrate on this type of personal violation and crime, it
is difficult to investigate and bring resolution to what is quickly becoming a burdensome and
disturbing problem.(Mancini, 2014) More importantly, the research of this project shows that the
actual physicians are not as aware or knowledgeable about this escalating fraud movement. If
implemented, biometric technology can be an additional layer of protection to make strides in the
improvement of patient security and safety. It can also be an effective means to promote
enhanced office and hospital functioning. A well-structured system utilizing biometric technology
can be designed to streamline the registration process and patients can be assured that they will
receive high level quality of care specifically for their correct identity.
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