Question

1. Provide examples of confidentiality, integrity and availability policy implementations as they pertains to health information privacy and security.

 

  2 What is PACS? List 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages of PACs and explain each briefly in your own words.

Answer 1

Question 1

Confidentiality refers to keeping things highly in secret and making sure it is not released or known by an unauthorized person of an individual

Eg.,A patient requesting the provider to keep confidentiality in the medical treatment provided to them when asked by their neighbors or a stranger without proper consent

Disclosing passwords of an account to access patient data

Integrity refers to the information provided are correct ,without concealing any truth

Eg.,An individual provided access for patient data without proper qualification

Availability refers to maintaining the documents in a secured manner to access it after any major disaster or loss due to any accidents

Eg.,Loss of patient details from a surem due to fire accidents, should be able to be retrieved in another system.

Question 2

PACs stands for Picture Archieving and Communication System.It is a technological development in medical science to store and transfer the medical images of the patient in a computerised form

Advantages	Disadvantages
Easily accessible Available at anytime Less time consuming to wait for getting the flims of the radiological images Can interpret results in a most efficient manner	Lack of PACs ID of an employee or misuse can lead to threat of loss of data Risk for cyber hacking of the reports Needs internet support