NURS FPX 6616 Assessment 1 Community Resources and Best Practices

NURS FPX 6616 Assessment 1 Community Resources and Best Practices

The patient-centered approach of the healthcare system today is different from the past disease-based approach. The Internet of Medical Things or Electronic Health Records has made it extremely easy for healthcare professionals and patients to communicate with each other better. It is easy to keep the information distinct and easily available for effective healthcare, however sensitive and important information is part of the system for instance, the address of the house, disease, allergies, information about the bank card, contact number, insurance, and fears mentioned. The breached data can be used to harm the patient financially, psychologically, or physically. Similarly, organizations suffer from financial and reputational issues after a data breach. This usually happens because the data is separate from an organization. Due to this, the beneficiary and autonomy principle of ethics is compromised, the data breached harmed, and secondly, it was without consent (Layman, 2020).                  

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Legal Issues of Current Practices and Potential Changes          

The legal issues about misuse of healthcare information are patients’ security and organizational financial and reputational loss. The reach of data leads to data misuse, which can be extremely bad for patients and healthcare organizations. Multiple bodies have set laws and regulations for keeping the security check on information technology. For instance, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act promotes secure health technology integration, and The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) strengthens the privacy concerns related to information sharing in an organization. 

Potential Changes Recommended

WHO has recommended some areas to be considered for changing the Health Information System (HIS) (Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Informatics, 2020).

• It is important that HIS collaborates well between healthcare sectors, departments, and information technology to improve healthcare information governance.
• Usually, the data breach is because of low investment in technology security and training, so investment in data management is essential for avoiding legal repercussions.
• All stakeholders should be on one page. The patients, healthcare team, nurses, organizational leaders, and states should align with the health information system security agenda. 
• Information and communication technology are extremely important for better access to information, so innovative technology must be considered to update the system timely. 
• Applications and systems should be strengthened to reuse them by setting common standards, guidelines, and solutions to data management or analysis.
• The data should be used to avoid possible harm by reporting it and communicating information to improve healthcare services.
• Lastly, accountability by states and national oversights can help track the progress or lack of reliable health information systems, for instance, HIPPA and its legal notice for warning data breach incidents. 

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Comparison of Current Outcomes with Best Practices

Weak security, no integration of multi-authentication processes for access to information, and lower investment in Health Information Systems lead to loss, theft, and misuse of the information. Two situations occur: data leveraging and long-term identity theft (Steger et al., 2019). This brings problems like financial and lifetime losses in the form of ransom, blackmailing, and death. The illegitimate use of information has serious repercussions that may not be restored or rebuilt. The reason for data reach is handling IT information in the hands of physicians and not collaborating with professional and non-professional staff members to keep the information private and secure. 

NURS FPX 6616 Assessment 1 Community Resources and Best Practices

Strengthening the medical information systems, teamwork, collaboration, and education to patients along with training and development of the healthcare team are objectives of the real-time strategies. The best practices involve constant improvement by involving IT professionals, patients, physicians, and nurses even. The best practices also involve training and educational sessions for healthcare professionals so they know the current possible misuse practices. The training and education include inte