The EHR Blues: Fears of Adopting EHR – Threat of Data Breach
As the Privacy and Security Officer, one of the biggest fears that the board of directors (BOD) had to move forward with the adoption of the EHR has become a reality. You have just been notified of a recently discovered data breach that impacted your employer that represented ten (10) hospitals along the North East coast. You are responsible for creating a breach notification letter. This letter will be sent to patients whose Protected Health Information (PHI) has been compromised in the breach. According to federal regulations, the breach notification letter must contain five (5) required elements addressed in a customized manner according to the situational circumstances and consisting of:
Create a letter that incorporates the above five required elements including the six subcategories of information listed under item #5.
Using the actual breach case of the Affinity Health Plan in 2013 (https://www.databreaches.net/affinity-health-plan-notifies-over-409000-of-breach/) or research a healthcare data breach that occurred within the past ten years to better assist you in understanding the true impact of a healthcare data breach and efforts made to respond and prevent future occurrences. You will need to make up the specifics about your health care organization (email address, website, phone number, address…) but use the case for specifics about the breach event.
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