The healthcare industry has witnessed an evolution and with such a massive growth comes the demand of catering and managing healthcare IT services too.
So much so that HIT has got a devoted field of its own now with experts and trained professionals working day-in-day-out.
As always, bad follows well.
So with consummation of IT with healthcare, security breaches have also followed.
These risks the medical identify of the patients which sometimes may result in insurance and non-payment grievances.
This attempt to connect the physicians all over the globe has given heat to the existing privacy and security concerns in healthcare business.
With grants pouring in, the healthcare practitioners have started or may be atleast thought of converting from paper medical records to EHR -(electronic health records).
With electronization of records, spacing and accessing issues may have been resolved but security issues have branched out.
If you do not take a call at the right time, you may run the risk of losing out all if this takes a toll and your system crashes.
So it is advisable to act on time and stay alert when you integrate technology with your work.
To safeguard yourself and your staff, acceptance is the key.
Learn to admit that there are loop holes existing in the complicated system that you follow and thereby training your staff and equipping them with abilities to spot any security violation.
Spotting the HIT software issues such as application running significantly slow, password not working, or strange files on your hard drive may hint at a potential security lapse.
So the best way to keep a check on this is to put your hospital's data security policies in one place for your people to read and employ it.