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Nursing Responses

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REPLY 1

I've learned a lot from your post among them being that security risks have been rising

for the past years since healthcare facilities started sharing and storing medical records

electronically. This has led to the creation of certain laws like HIPAA law to specially protect

patient’s medical records, and keep them private (Sewell, 2019). HIPAA law requires covered

people to be guaranteed privacy, honesty, and compliance by their workforce against

unauthorized access to their data. The reason behind this standard is to secure the privacy of

people's medical data and to ensure that with the management of electronic records, the

probability of potential risk to electronic patient health information (e-PHI) is reduced. Hospitals

have a liability to distinguish possibilities of risks and implement evaluations to protect patient

records. At the point when patient records are accessible by an enormous volume of people, it

requires proper compliance to be incorporated.

Sewell, J. P. (2019). Informatics and nursing: opportunities and challenges. Philadelphia:

Wolters Kluwer.

REPLY 2

I agree with you that biometrics can be used as one of the best methods for protecting

individual privacy. In fact, bio-measurements ensures security by protecting personality and

trustworthiness. For example, a biometric-based patient data system can dependably ensure that

access to clinical records is accessible just to the patient and approved clinical workforce.

However, many individuals are uncomfortable with the use of their own biological

characteristics in corporate or government recognition systems. HIPAA was made mainly to

protect patient's clinical records and keep them private, so it is fundamental for ensuring that the
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technology being used to record such information to have adequate protection against any

potential threat. In today's era, the internet is the place everything is seen and stored, including

clinical records, so the stipulations and prerequisites for HIPAA have changed to keep individual

clinical records private and to secure patients (Sewell, 2019).

Sewell, J. (2019). Informatics and Nursing Sixth Edition. Retrieved from:

https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781975135973/cfi/6/6!/4/2/2/2@0:0.00