Patient Information Data as a Public Good Medicine Essay (Essay Sample)

Patient Information Data as a Public Good: Privacy and Security
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Patient Information Data as a Public Good: Privacy and Security
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The security and privacy of healthcare information is an overlooked component of patient care. Healthcare practitioners spend most of their time investigating potential patient privacy violations or assessing healthcare information's access requests rather than educating people regarding health information's safety and privacy. Additionally, health information security professionals focus on intrusion detection, controls, risk evaluations, and security administration. People are the weakest link in health information security chains due to lack of awareness and training on patient information security threats. Any healthcare data's consideration as a public good raises security and safety questions. Maintaining information confidentiality is fundamental to patients' health security. Privacy public perceptions of healthcare records relate directly to the public's trust in the overall healthcare industry and play a critical role in information sharing discussions. Patient data management has many challenges ranging from what happens post-initial data intake to aggregation and secondary utilization of such information. The sharing of healthcare information provides insights into patients outcomes and care delivery procedures. The tension between sharing benefits of patient information and the security implications of such processes continue to impede patient care improvement. Addressing healthcare information privacy and security issues improve the delivery of patient care.