Understanding Cybersecurity for Health Care Professionals

By Rachel Clad, Global practice specialist II, DAI ; Galia Nurko, Associate digital specialist, DAIAugust 13, 2019We live in exciting times.The ways in which we store and engage with health data have been transformed with the creation and adoption of digital health technology. Whether it’s using a Fitbit, accessing your vaccine records online, or virtually connecting with your doctor, understanding your health status in real time has never been easier…for some of us.We at DAI Global Health are working tirelessly to increase access to health care in low- and middle-income countries by leveraging digital health technologies. The goal is to empower patients and professionals providing care to them to use data to make smart decisions.Health dataThe ease with which new technology allows us to share, collect, and store data has resulted in massive pools of health data. This is fantastic—especially because it allows us to harness machine learning to more efficiently diagnose illness, reducing the health care workforce gap.But how safe is this health data? And what does that even mean?The global health sector is in the top five sectors most affected by data breaches. In Mexico, for example, the personal health data of more than 2 million people collected by a telemedicine company was accidentally made public online.Data breaches can reveal sensitive health diagnoses and put people at risk.That may seem innocuous, but data breaches ...
Source: IntraHealth International - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Digital Health Technology Source Type: news