Protecting Patient Information: A Decision-Maker's Guide to Risk, Prevention, and Damage Control

Protecting Patient Information: A Decision-Maker's Guide to Risk, Prevention, and Damage Control provides the concrete steps needed to tighten the information security of any healthcare IT system and reduce the risk of exposing patient health information (PHI) to the public. The book offers a systematic, 3-pronged approach for addressing the IT security deficits present in healthcare organizations of all sizes.

Healthcare decision-makers are shown how to conduct an in-depth analysis of their organization’s information risk level. After this assessment is complete, the book offers specific measures for lowering the risk of a data breach, taking into account federal and state regulations governing the use of patient data. Finally, the book outlines the steps necessary when an organization experiences a data breach, even when it has taken all the right precautions.

• Written for physicians, nurses, healthcare executives, and business associates who need to safeguard patient health information
• Shows how to put in place the information security measures needed to reduce the threat of data breach
• Teaches physicians that run small practices how to protect their patient’s data
• Demonstrates to decision-makers of large and small healthcare organizations the urgency of investing in cybersecurity

《保護病患資訊：決策者的風險、預防和損害控制指南》提供了緊縮任何醫療保健資訊系統的資訊安全所需的具體步驟，並減少公開病患健康資訊（PHI）的風險。本書提供了一種系統性的、三重方法，用於解決各種規模的醫療機構中存在的資訊安全缺陷。

本書向醫療決策者展示了如何對其組織的資訊風險水平進行深入分析。在完成評估後，本書提供了降低數據洩露風險的具體措施，考慮到聯邦和州對病患數據使用的法規。最後，本書概述了組織在遭遇數據洩露時所需的步驟，即使已經採取了所有正確的預防措施。

• 針對需要保護病患健康資訊的醫生、護士、醫療行政人員和業務合作夥伴撰寫


• 展示了如何建立所需的資訊安全措施以減少數據洩露威脅


• 教導小型診所的醫生如何保護其病患的資料


• 向大型和小型醫療機構的決策者展示了投資於網絡安全的迫切性