Advocating Or Discouraging Data Mining?

By Author: Angela MArtin
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The healthcare industry has witnessed a manifold evolution. As a result, the demand for healthcare IT support has also gone up. The healthcare IT has now got a devoted field of its own now with experts and trained professionals working day-in-day-out to be at par with the new things coming up each day. But like all good things that face goof ups and glitches, HIT has got its own issues that follow the recent E-prescribing System of maintaining medical records. So with consummation of IT with healthcare, security breaches have also followed. These breaches have put the medical identity of the patient at stake.


Most of the hospitals and medical centers are spending their funds to get acquainted and prepared to conquer the ready-to-go live electronic medical records system. But with this new inclusion comes the threat of a new intrusion in the form of data security. And I bet ...
... no one would like their names making headlines and being dragged into controversies for wrong reasons. So the need of the hour is to have a proper healthcare IT security system at place.


Some companies collect data from pharmacies on physicians' prescribing patterns and later sell it for marketing purposes which is unlawful. Now an amendment has been proposed to the Senate's existing health reform which if becomes a law would make data mining a punishable offence.


Now it all depends what the choice of the majority would be? Are we getting geared up for a rigorous and stern legal framework or have we already planned to favor the identity theft cases. This is just anticipation; the final judgment would come after the voting is over. So wait and watch.

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