Protecting Patient Data – Case Study
Healthcare providers need to securely exchange patient data while complying with regulations.
Governments and global authorities are always looking to improve health services, and part of these efforts include collection of sensitive and private data to use for both to keep track of everyone health history and to create a solid base for todays mostly AI driven healthcare researches.
Abundance on data, does not make it anonymous until processed accordingly. All data generated from a patient medical diagnosis belongs to this patient, until approved. Thus moving this data from one repository to another need to have required security measures.
One of the most important security precautions is to protect original datastore from any kind of attack. Data leaving the initial store must not be exposed to any open channel, or create any hole in security chain that would be prone to attack. This approach ensures patient data to travel integral and keep the infrastructure secure