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Article · June 2019
DOI: 10.31142/ijtsrd23780
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, International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD)
Volume: 3 | Issue: 4 | May-Jun 2019 Available Online: www.ijtsrd.com e-ISSN: 2456 - 6470
Security, Confidentiality and Privacy
in Health of Healthcare Data
Jomin George1, Takura Bhila2
1Departmentof Health Information Systems Management,
1Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia
2Department of Information and Communication Technology,
2Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Maseru, Lesotho
How to cite this paper: Jomin George | ABSTRACT
Takura Bhila "Security, Confidentiality Background: One of the most important facts that should be considered is
and Privacy in Health of Healthcare confidentiality in order to maintain privacy turning out to be matters of security.
Data" Published in International Journal Keeping-up confidentiality is a crucial factor in any field, as well as health realms.
of Trend in Scientific Research and Professionals who have the ingress to approach the patients’ communications
Development must keep confidentiality in health. The priority for any human being is privacy
(ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456- to information especially related to health. Security enables us to live peacefully,
6470, Volume-3 | without anxiety and in full insurance.
Issue-4, June 2019,
pp.373-377, URL: Methods: The interpretive methodology was used in this research as it gives an
https://www.ijtsrd.c impression of face to face interactions in healthcare bringing in social reality of
om/papers/ijtsrd23 what is happening in the health society.
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Results: In consultations on gathering these results for our research, we also
Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and realized that the most common threats of loss of data and theft come under
International Journal of Trend in certain types of disclosures mainly third parties, routine and inadvertent. Upon
Scientific Research and Development this realization, there must be notification to protect security, confidentiality and
Journal. This is an Open Access article privacy when security breaches occur mainly to patients. As a result, patients
distributed under must provide consent about their medical information in electronically form or
the terms of the in writing and the consent must be signed by the patient or family member or
Creative Commons trusted entity. The patients must come clear on the nature of the information to
Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) be disclosed and where it should be disclosed and also when the consent should
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ expire. At the same time, a health facility must take care of the institution’s
by/4.0) database and can only disclose to the management of the health institution
whose obligation would also be to protect the data, as they might need the
information for research purposes, where the researchers have approval from
their institution’s or to legal representatives.
Conclusion: The advent of the hype of electronic information technology leads
to major inconvenience in the main areas of human life. This manuscript
explores issues in maintaining confidentiality and privacy in healthcare and
other analysis of its value to individual and society as a whole. “Right to privacy
is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the
house falls.” Tim Cook (2016)1
Keywords: Healthcare, Privacy in health, Security, Medical Confidentiality, HIPAA,
Socio-technical.
INTRODUCTION
The confidentiality of the personal information particularly and their medical practitioners. Furthermore, privacy in
in the health field remains to be a sensible subject. Patients health information is the right of an individual to keep
are aware mostly about their health information as today it his/her health information from being disclosed. The
is stored in data servers. Health data are still considered information needs not to be shared with others. As a secret,
particularly sensitive although more and more patients are it requires permission from the patients and encompasses a
unaware and adhere to free information that may cause control.
serious consequences to them later.
As for the medical confidentiality, it is achieved via technical
Privacy information means a set of rules which limit and operational controls within a covered entity. This
permission to information discussed between the patient consists of the allowance to control the access to the
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