ENSURING MEDICAL DATA SECURITY AND INTEGRITY IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL HEALTH

*Namana Tejasri, Buchigari S. Haripriya and Seelam Manju Lakshmi

ABSTRACT

Maintaining data integrity & security continues to be a persistent problem in the current healthcare sector. They can become significant health threats for patients & big responsibility for clinicians, resulting in problems such as scam, misconduct, inadequate treatment & data theft. Healthcare data no matter how useful for the advancement of medical science & vital to the success of all healthcare organizations, can only be used if data integrity & security issues are addressed. The healthcare sector also embraced digital technology to facilitate technological change from mechanical and analogue electronic devices to the digital technology that is available today. The article presents the impact of technology in healthcare along with the integrity and security concerns related to technology use in healthcare and discussed ways in which they may be addressed. We mainly focused on the recently proposed technological methods based on anonymization and encryption.

Keywords: Data Security, Data Integrity, Digitization, Electronic Health Records, HIPAA compliance, Encryption.