Williams, Jamie, and Lee Tien. “The Law and Medical Privacy.” Electronic Frontier Foundation, https://www.eff.org/issues/law-and-medical-privacy.
The law and medical privacy operate more for the benefit of ensuring the flow of information throughout the healthcare industry than ensuring the privacy of individuals. Although we have regulation on medical health data by the government, it has limitations.
“Federal and State Health Laws.” California Health and Human Services, 17 Oct. 2021, https://www.chhs.ca.gov/ohii/health-laws/.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) establishes national standards for the administration and protection of individuals’ health information (e.g., medical or health records, personal health information). The law can ensure our security and privacy
Seh, Adil Hussain, et al. “Healthcare Data Breaches: Insights and Implications.” Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), MDPI, 13 May 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7349636/.
The main argument of the article is research the trends and costs of healthcare data leaking. With the trend of time, the leakage of healthcare data is becoming more and more serious.
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Regional Health Data Networks. “Confidentiality and Privacy of Personal Data.” Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1 Jan. 1994, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236546/.
The article examined sources of concerns about informational privacy and the confidentiality of health-related information and security. We should addressed by a proposal for federal preemptive legislation that all healthcare data must be kept confidential
Nass, Sharyl J. “The Value and Importance of Health Information Privacy.” Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1 Jan. 1970, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9579/.
The main argument of this article is the value and importance of health information privacy. It is very important to protect the security of data in health research, because health research needs to collect, store and use a large amount of personally identifiable health information, many of which may be sensitive and embarrassing.
Williams, Jamie. “Medical Privacy Under Attack: 2017 in Review.” Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2 Jan. 2018, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/medical-privacy-under-attack-2017-review.
The California Supreme Court and the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court declined to recognize a significant privacy interest in prescription records. It is particularly important for the government to protect the patients’ privacy.
Greer, Tyler. “UAB Medicine Notifies Patients of Data Breach.” UAB News, News, 10 Oct. 2019, https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/10813-uab-medicine-notifies-patients-of-data-breach.
The investigation revealed the cybercriminals were attempting to divert employees’ automatic payroll deposits to an account controlled by the hackers. This will cause security problems in personal accounts and capital accounts.
The State of Small Business Cybersecurity in 2020, et al. “5 Biggest Healthcare Data Breaches.” Alpine Security, 20 Feb. 2020, https://alpinesecurity.com/blog/5-biggest-healthcare-cybersecurity-breaches/.
The main argument of the article is the top 5 healthcare cybersecurity beaches. Some customers of excellus had their identifying data stolen including Social Security numbers, personal data, credit card information, and even patients’ medical histories will cause the safety and security problems.
Appenteng, Kwabena A. “What to Do When Employee Medical Data Is Compromised.” SHRM, SHRM, 7 July 2021, https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/hipaa-employee-medical-data-compromised.aspx.
The argument talks about what we need to do when employee medical data is compromised. It needs to make regulations for employees on medical data aspects .
Richie, and Richie. “Employee Data Breach Claims against an Employer.” EFA, 17 June 2021, http://www.efa.org.uk/employee-data-breach-claims-against-an-employer/.
It is not a new phenomenon that compay leak the employers’ medical data privacy. It has always been a fundamental common law requirement. Employee training on privacy requirements is very helpful to protect valuable information and, more importantly, to protect brand reputation
11.Anastasiia Zlobina Assistant Researcher. Personal Data of Thousands of Covid-19 Patients Leaked in Moscow, 15 Dec. 2020, https://www.hrw.org/node/377385/printable/print.
Thousands of Covid-19 patients’ medical data leaking in Moscow. The patients’ data are stored in online spreadsheets without security which causes leaking problems.