Prompt:
The privacy and security of patient health information is the responsibility of the healthcare organization.
Consider the following example:
a compare with sensitive health information has been left unattended and ix subsequently stolen.
What is the potential impact (think: HIPAA) and how would you deal with this incident? Specifically, the following critical elements should be addressed:
• Analyze the potential fineact and the severity of the incident.
• Apply the phases of handling data incidents to this instance; what would you do first, second, third, and so on?
• Finally, recommend strategies to prevent this type of data incident from occurring in the future.
