All 2 posts must have a source at the bottom of your post. This can be your textbook, or it can be s ...

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All 2 posts must have a source at the bottom of your post. This can be your textbook, or it can be scholarly articles (CINAHL is an excellent resource). you must respond to 2 peers on 2 different days by Sunday at 11:59pm. Each response must be 100 words with a source. peer 1: A health information data breach occurred in California where a package was sent through a national courier and the package was damaged during transit. Due to this damaged package, patient names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, dates of death, physician, financial account number, insurance ID, Medicare and Medicaid charges billed and paid, hospital room and board charges and guarantor Social Security number may have been exposed. Patients who received care between a time period of two years were affected. One strategy to prevent and protect patient health information is to use secure packing that is hard to damage and to include a tracking device in it. From experience working at a shipping company, packages were often thrown, damaged and lost. Therefore, shipping any health related information should be in a secure box or package that is hard to destroy and include a tracking device to prevent any data breach. This strategy can be applied in real world healthcare settings by storing health information in a locked cabinet or room that unauthorized individuals will not be able to access. Many paper health records or information are not out of sight at hospitals, they should be in a locked cabinet and out of sight to prevent any privacy violations. Medical Information Breach Regulations: Comments to the California Department of Public Health | PrivacyRights.org. (n.d.). Privacyrights.org. https://privacyrights.org/resources/medical-information-breach-regulations-comments-california-department-public-health peer 2 : The recent health information breach that I chose was a breach that happened in September of this year against the Boston Children's Hospital. The hospital noticed that there was some unusual activity on their systems on September 6th, four days later the company had to shut down their systems because they had found more unusual activity. The hackers had gotten personal information of the patients such as their Social Security numbers, addresses, medical records, health insurance and treatment information. There wasn't an exact number of how many people were affected in the article however the group that was at fault for this breach has affected almost 2 million records. One strategy that could be used to prevent breaches like this are using VPN's when handling patients personal information as well as their electronic health records. By using a VPN it can add that extra sense of security and making it harder for hackers to access that sensitive information. Another strategy that could be used to prevent these breaches is by putting a two factor authorization in order to access the patient files, by adding that second authorization it allows for an extra level of protection so that the information isn't easily available. These strategies could be applied in a real world healthcare setting to improve data security so that we can decrease the amount of health information breaches, the information that we give our healthcare providers is sensitive and it should be handled accordingly. If we aren't able to protect our patients information then they may have a lack of trust in us leading to them not fully being honest at appointments and such. Boston Children’s Health Physicians confirms September data breach. Cyber Security News | The Record. (2024, October 18). https://therecord.media/boston-childrens-health-physicians-data-breach Links to an external site.