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considered to be goldmines of valuable information. Therefore, the need arises to securely
protect the information. The security measures in the healthcare industry are indeed poor and
hence breaching of these valuable data is considered as an inevitable outcome (Martin et al.,
2017).
The health care industries should conduct security risk assessment annually that should
account for the changes that occur in a healthcare in a year like introducing new systems,
enhancement of the infrastructure, restructuring the organisation as well as employee
turnover. These incidents can promote the occurrence of new vulnerabilities (Gupta, Agrawal
& Yamaguchi. 2016). The employees working in the health care sector should be educated
about the importance of data security since lack of awareness can lead to breaching of the
data. This would promote enforcement of the best practices to keep the data secure in the
workplace. The devices and records should be monitored at continuous intervals. Breaching
is often the result of stealing valuable data from home, office or vehicle (Chowdhury et al.,
2018). Encryption of the data is one of the best measures to prevent healthcare data breach.
But there are significant challenges to encryption. The access to patient information should be
restricted. Promoting subnet wireless networks also aids in preventing data breach at health
care centres. The information technology structure should also be modernized (Gupta,
Agrawal & Yamaguchi. 2016).

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