1) Health data is sensitive and confidential; hence, it should be kept safe. Data security is one of the critical activities which has become challenging for many organizations (Frith, 2019). Due to technology advancements, people can save their health data online. Similarly, people are also able to share data with close friends or any other person of interest. Using online platforms to store the data has brought a lot of benefits. The primary benefit is the fact that individuals can share data with medical experts easily. By, this the medical experts will be able to assist the sick people if possible. The data is always accessible as long as one is authorized. I read different articles that shared information concerning health data breaches. Various health organizations have been affected by data breaches (Garner, 2017). A good example is the University of Washington Medicine. This organization reported that 974,000 patients' data was affected. The attack was noticed by a patient who found some files containing personal information on public sites. The patient then notified the organization, which claimed that some employees made some errors, which led to the leakage. The files were accessible through Google, so the organization had to ask Google to remove the data. Fortunately, the files were removed from the search list, and this occurred in January 2019.              It was risky to let the files containing personal information available on the website (Ronquillo, Erik Winterholler, Cwikla, Szymanski & Levy, 2018). The organization was lucky that the data breach was not significant, and hence, the patients were not significantly affected. It is good to ensure that files containing health data are handled carefully to avoid some problems. In keeping the health data secure, it is good to ensure that the systems are well-protected. The systems can be protected by making use of firewalls which prevent unauthorized people from accessing them. During the data sharing process, a health organization should ensure that the information is encrypted. Encryption prevents unauthorized people from understanding the message that is being shared using different channels. Users should make sure that they use strong passwords. 2)  Protection of patient’s information is the top most priority of health care providers and professionals. Patient’s health information contains personal data and their health conditions hence the federal laws requires to maintain security and privacy to safeguards health information. Privacy, as distinct from confidentiality, is viewed as the right of the individual client or patient to be let alone and to make decisions about how personal information is shared (Brodnik, 2012).  Health data is usually stored on paper or electronically, in both these ways it is important to respect the privacy of the patients and hence follow policies to maintain security and privacy rules. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountabili.

1. 1)
Health data is sensitive and confidential; hence, it should be
kept safe. Data security is one of the critical activities which
has become challenging for many organizations (Frith, 2019).
Due to technology advancements, people can save their health
data online. Similarly, people are also able to share data with
close friends or any other person of interest. Using online
platforms to store the data has brought a lot of benefits. The
primary benefit is the fact that individuals can share data with
medical experts easily. By, this the medical experts will be able
to assist the sick people if possible. The data is always
accessible as long as one is authorized.
I read different articles that shared information concerning
health data breaches. Various health organizations have been
affected by data breaches (Garner, 2017). A good example is the
University of Washington Medicine. This organization reported
that 974,000 patients' data was affected. The attack was noticed
by a patient who found some files containing personal
information on public sites. The patient then notified the
organization, which claimed that some employees made some
errors, which led to the leakage. The files were accessible
through Google, so the organization had to ask Google to
remove the data. Fortunately, the files were removed from the
search list, and this occurred in January 2019.
It was risky to let the files containing personal
information available on the website (Ronquillo, Erik
Winterholler, Cwikla, Szymanski & Levy, 2018). The
organization was lucky that the data breach was not significant,
and hence, the patients were not significantly affected. It is
good to ensure that files containing health data are handled
carefully to avoid some problems. In keeping the health data

2. secure, it is good to ensure that the systems are well-protected.
The systems can be protected by making use of firewalls which
prevent unauthorized people from accessing them. During the
data sharing process, a health organization should ensure that
the information is encrypted. Encryption prevents unauthorized
people from understanding the message that is being shared
using different channels. Users should make sure that they use
strong passwords.
2)
Protection of patient’s information is the top most priority of
health care providers and professionals. Patient’s health
information contains personal data and their health conditions
hence the federal laws requires to maintain security and privacy
to safeguards health information. Privacy, as distinct from
confidentiality, is viewed as the right of the individual client or
patient to be let alone and to make decisions about how personal
information is shared (Brodnik, 2012). Health data is usually
stored on paper or electronically, in both these ways it is
important to respect the privacy of the patients and hence
follow policies to maintain security and privacy rules.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPPA) is a major law introduced to ensure privacy, integrity
and confidentiality of health data. Its main objective is to
provide step by step instructions for providers and other health
care organization in dealing with patient’s personal health
information.
Security of data is protecting health data and methods used to
ensure privacy of health information and help health care
professionals in secure transmission of data. As utilization of
electronic wellbeing record frameworks developed, and

3. transmission of wellbeing information to help charging turned
into the standard, the requirement for administrative rules
explicit to electronic wellbeing data turned out to be
progressively evident.
Confidentiality is to ensure that medical professional having
access to patients data hold health data in confidence.
According to HIPPA and PHI rules any individual or the
organization involved in disclosure of patient’s health
information is subjected to heavy fines and possible expulsion
from license.
3)
The HIPAA regulation are only for the US but the regulations
which are part of the data regulations for hospital records but
there are many regulations that enforced by other countries and
international standards and committees one such standard is that
helping the hospital records to regulated, secured and
maintained properly. One such regulation is HL7 which is
provided by the international committee which regulates
hospital and patient records all over the world. These
regulations make sure that patient privacy is also maintained
and makes sure other countries don’t get access to patients in
other countries which will get access to weaponize patient data.
The data of a country’s citizens is very useful in the hands of
other countries, so it is the duty of the HL7 regulation and
committee to protect this. The regulations clearly instruct how
the patient records are transmitted by API and how they should
be encrypted and where the key should be stored and sent via a
special communication which will help the patients to maintain
the records safe and the hospital to continue to do their
business.

4. The HL7 also makes the job for software vendors and providers
who work in the health care industry can store and use the
patient records in a uniform manner and access can be restricted
to different groups. The applications which use HL7 need to be
end to end encrypted and API keys need to come from the health
care data providers like Cerner which will increase the
credibility of the data
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