LUBM305 - Digital Systems: Challenges to Privacy & IP in Healthcare

This report examines the vulnerabilities and dependencies of healthcare organizations on information systems, highlighting cybersecurity threats and data breaches. It discusses challenges to protecting healthcare staff, patient data, and intellectual property due to hacking, user error, cloud adoption...Read More

Creating and Managing
Digital Systems

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Describe why some Healthcare organisations have become dependent and vulnerable because
of using Information Systems......................................................................................................1
Explain some of the internet challenges faced in view of the protection of healthcare staff,
patients and customers data, privacy and intellectual property...................................................2
Explain how informed consent, legislation, industry self–regulation and technology tools help
protect the individual privacy of internet users...........................................................................3
Discuss two ways that protect intellectual property rights..........................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Digital system can be described as elements that includes hardware, network, software along
with their use. There is different component that is required for purpose of developing on system.
Digital system is important for digital transformation that is important for survival of business in
digital landscape (Blau and Shamir-Inbal, 2018). These digital systems are important for purpose
of improving hiring process as company can maintain records of candidate on digital system.
This system also helps company to maintain other record of employees like leave, salary and
personal information. It also allows company to build good relationship with their patients as
effective digital system assist company for maintain privacy of patients records that is important
in order to maintain privacy. This project report includes description of reason due to which
health care organisation become vulnerable and dependent with use of information systems. It
explains different internet challenges faced in view of the protection of healthcare staff, patients
and customers data, privacy and intellectual property. It explains different ways in which
informed consent, legislation, industry self–regulation and technology tools help protect the
individual privacy of internet users. Moreover, it includes discussion of ways that protect
intellectual property rights.
MAIN BODY
Describe why some Healthcare organisations have become dependent and vulnerable because of
using Information Systems
Health care organisation is using technology at large extent which provide them various
advantage. But cyber security is creating threat for health care industry as there are various types
of data is issued in it. These data are related to their staff members as well as their patients.
Increasing use of information system crate vulnerability for patients data. As it is important for
health care organisation to put careful insights in business which assist them for purpose of
protecting valuable information of their customers (Buck, Probst Marques and Rosemann, 2021).
Without insights of organisation, third party can take advantage of valuable information of
organisation. There is various reason for which health care organisation is becoming dependent
and vulnerable with use of information system. These reasons in context of health care
organisation are mentioned below:
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Staff: There are various employees work in a health care organisation who has easy access to
files of patients. All these employees do not take advantage of this power but some employees
can steal this information of patients. This information can be used by criminals in theft related
to identity or can be used to for blackmail people. There are different ways in which staff can
steal these records. There are some cases where employees can access to financial documents of
patients and use their credit card numbers for purpose of committing fraudulent purchase.
Malware and phishing attempts: There are various malware as well as phishing schemes
which are planting different malicious scripts on device or stealing login credentials that can
compromise complete system (Burgos and Ivanov, 2021). In this, challenge is occurred related to
dealing with malware is that it requires seemingly authentic link for purpose of introducing
nefarious cyber presence into network. In this, it is important to provide training to staff for
purpose of recognising phishing attempts. In this, most common scan that is done by creating
emails from authentic looking sites that require login information.
Vendors: There are various health care providers who needs to work with different vendors and
they work with them without assessing as well as accompanying risk. For instance, hospitality
needs to hire cleaning company and their employees can access to computers. Although, it is
difficult for average employees for accessing to patient information but at same time, it is also
difficult for health care organisation safeguard all points of accessing information. At same time,
it is also important for hospitals to hire cleaning employees in order to maintain healthy work
environment.
Unsecured mobile devices: There are various health care facilities which are allowed logins
through mobiles but these devices do not always need to meet security standards (Gretzel, Ham
and Koo, 2018). It creates problems for their networks and also make them vulnerable for
hackers and malware as all these planning and security of organisation does not create influence
over communication devices of staff.
Explain some of the internet challenges faced in view of the protection of healthcare staff,
patients and customers data, privacy and intellectual property
There are various changes occur health care organisation as there is increasing use of
internet and other technologies in business. All these create some internet challenges for
business. In order to protect privacy of data of healthcare staff, customers, different challenges
are faced by healthcare organisation and these are mentioned below:
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Hacker and risk of hacktivism: Rise of hacktivism is creating problems for business of
health care organisation as it can results in data theft. Hackers use different techniques and get
access to health care organisation which create threat for privacy of patients, staff members and
other things. Hackers can take advantage of the data of hospitals and can sell it to third party
which is creating threat for them.
User error in adoption of technology: Threat for health care security can also be occurred from
simple patient user errors. A patient once unencrypted to folders in cloud, it can result in problem
for their personal data (Guinan, Parise and Langowitz, 2019). It is important for health care
organisation to use best practices of hacker data security along with using strong encryption that
protect that information sharing from third party access.
Adoption of cloud and mobile technology in healthcare: There is increasing use of
cloud for purpose of saving information of staff members, patients and other important
information in health care organisation. There is increasing growth in this industry which
increase needs of saving more data of patients. There is also use of mobile technology as
customers are using mobile in order to book appointments. There is encryption of the data when
it comes to cloud. In order to protect data of patients and other visitors in organisation and to
increase security of data, health care organisation ae using bring their own device policy in order
to ensure that use of mobile and other mobile device does not harm to security of data of
organisation.
Outdated technology in hospitals: There are various funds require in order to run a hospitality
as running of it is not cheap at time when healthcare organisation is using latest technology like
MRI, increase in numbers of staff members in order to fulfil needs as well as IT budget (Khalilov
and Levi, 2018). There is various software as well as infrastructure that is offering data security
risk related to health care as different vendors are stopped their support for IT system of hospital
that incudes patches of vital security. Different things like purchasing new server or biting the
bullet can create problems for budget but it is easier in compare to dealing with fallout of data
breaching.
Explain how informed consent, legislation, industry self–regulation and technology tools help
protect the individual privacy of internet users
Informed consent: It can be described as process that is related with communication among
patient as well as health care provided which leads to permission or agreement of treatment, care
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as well as service. It is right of every patient to be get informed and also ask question before
treatment and procedure. A patient who is adult and is mentally able to make decision, in this
medical care cannot start their treatment without getting informed consent of them (Kiszl and
Fodor, 2021). This information is related to name of condition, name of treatment to be
recommended by healthcare providers, risk as well as benefits of procedure and other options.
This informed consent is taken only from patient directly or if they are not able to make decision,
it is taken from their family. It is important to make privacy of individual user as this informed is
kept by health care providers. At time of using information system, this information is
completely encrypted.
Legislation: Privacy and confidentiality is one of important components among
relationship of health care provider and patient. This relationship is based on trust as well as fair
expectation of heath care provider and patients. Medical confidentiality is all about a consent of
health care providers for maintaining information of patient during their treatment. For this,
various legislation is made in UK which assist to maintain that privacy as well as confidentiality
of patients. This legislation includes data protection act 2018, consent under DPA/GDPR and
others. According to this legislation, it is essential for health care provider to maintain data of
their patients. Ignorance of these legislation can create negative impact over health care
organisations.
Industry self-regulation: Industry self-regulation is another tool that is require in health care
organisation for purpose of maintaining privacy of patients. It is a process in which members of
industry, sector and trade of economy that monitor own adherence to ethical, safety and legal
standards instead of having outside, third party entity, government regulator that enforce and
monitor these standards (Lee, Cameron and Hassall, 2019). This self-regulation is to be consider
by all health care provider including doctors, nurses, and other staff. These self-regulation helps
members to consider privacy of staff members, patients and other people.
Technology tool: There are various technological tools which is used in health care
organisation for purpose maintaining protection of data of patients, staff members. For this,
various security systems are implemented in organisation and also an IT professional is hired by
health care organisation who can ensure that they have best practices that assist them to protect
data of organisation.
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Discuss two ways that protect intellectual property rights
Intellectual property can be described as creation of minds like inventions, literary as well as
artistic work, symbols, designs, images used in commerce. This property is protected by law that
includes patients, cop rights, trademarks that allow people to get recognition as well as financial
benefit from things they invent and create. It is important in order to create a valance among
interest of wider public and innovator (Lone and Mir, 2019). Intellectual tool can be including
different things from procedure of production to launch of product schedule. List of countries,
trading secret. There are different ways in order to protect intellectual property which are
mentioned below:
Application of copyrights, patient and trademark:
Different organisation can protect their management and other operation through rights
related to intellectual property as well as legislation that provide them better position of
bargaining for counterclaims and cross licensing. It is a right as well as registration that allow
corporation for competing goofs, pave different ways for future market share and deter entrants
in future market share.
Copyrights: It is a kind of intellectual property which protect original expression of artistic work
or authorship. It can be licensed for drawing, text, artwork as well as combination of different
objectives that is produced through corporation (Parusheva and Pencheva, 2022).
Trademark: It consist symbols, brand name as well as logos that can be used b company
for purpose of differentiating products and service of company (Love and Matthews, 2019).
Trademark can be defined as words, text, painting, photograph which is used for purpose of
identify group of objects.
Patents: It is used for purpose of registering things and inventions which are unique and
not known for general public as well as other method through which they can work. It includes
information that is related to invention and can be submitted to public with application of patent
in order to obtain patent.
Never stop innovating:
In order to protect intellectual property rights, it is essential for health care organisation to
maintain innovation. Creativity is one of component that leads to rapid evolution leaps
(Mohamed, 2021). There are various rivals in industry and in order to overcome of it, it is
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essential for health care organisation to adopt innovation that is also important in order to
maintain privacy of data of patients and healthcare providers.
CONCLUSION
From above mentioned project report, it can be concluded that Digital system are important for
an organisation in order to improve their efficiency. It is also important for them to speed up
process of business and improve convenance of customers. There is increasing use of technology
in health care organisation due to which they become more vulnerable and dependent on
technology. It is due to threat of information system in heath care organisation. There is increase
malware and other unethical practices in information system with which hackers and third party
can access to information. There are various internet challenges occur in health care organisation
that is creating problems for business. These challenges include hacker and risk of hacktivism,
user error in adoption of technology, adoption of cloud and mobile technology in healthcare,
outdated technology in hospitals. It can lead to negative impact of privacy of customers and other
members personal information. This privacy is important in order to maintain trust among health
care providers and patients. There are various things which are important for a health care
organisation in order to maintain privacy of internet user including informed consent, legislation,
industry self–regulation and technology tools. There are different ways through which health
care organisation can protect intellectual property. These was includes using innovation that
cannot be copied by innovators, copy right, patent and trademark.
RECOMMENDATION
From above mentioned project report, it can be recommended that health care organisation
should use attest technology with care which helps them to improve efficiency of their operation
process. It is important in order to provide fast service to patients that is essential in order to
increase customer base. These technologies allow them to differentiate their services from those
of other revivals and also provide them competitive advantage.
It is also suggested to health care organisation to adopt ethical practices in their organisation
which is important for purpose of maintaining trust among patients and health care providers.
This trust allows them to take medica care without any stress and also improve image of
hospitals in minds of patients.
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It is advised to health care organisation to ensure security of their digital system which is
important in order to protect data of staff members and other patients. This data can be created
problems for patients and employees as it contains their personal information. Third party can
access to the data and can sell it to for their personal benefits. In order to avoid this, it is
recommended to health care originations to adopt effective security of their digital systems. They
can also adopt bring their own devices policy in their organisation for protecting data from
access of employees.
TASK 2
Task 2 – (30%) : Weekly Reflection Sheet: LUBM305 Project Management
Student Name: Student ID:
Wk. No Date: Learning Outcome Learner reflection
Introduction
4. 7. What did you learn?
8.
What activity or part of
the lecture did you enjoy
most and why?
Describe in few words when and where you could apply the knowledge you gained this
week.
This knowledge which I have gained this week can be applied by me in different
organisation where will I work. It will help me to gain knowledge of digital systems and its
importance for business specially in health care organisation. This knowledge can also help
me in getting further higher education as it allows me to be prepare for module related to
information systems (Shaughnessy, 2018). It is an important concept as business are
increasingly using digital technology. In this module, I enjoy the part where learn
important of information system and practices of overcome of threat of it.
9. What did you learn?
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5. 10.
Briefly state one skill you
do need as a project
manager and why?
Describe in few words when and where you could apply the knowledge you gained this
week.
As a project manage, I needs to develop team working skill as in order to complete a
project I require coordination of team members. In order to complete a project, a person
require efforts of many people as a single people is not able to do lot of work. This can be
done by efforts of team members that is essential for completing the project in effective
manner (Sousa and Rocha, 2019). With this skill, I will be able to divide work among
members of team that allow me to complete work in effective manner.
6. 11. What did you learn?
12.
What one new skill(s)
did you develop in this
unit?
Describe in few words when and where you could apply the knowledge you gained this
week.
One of skill that I learn in this unit is time management skills as there are various
assignment are given by professors to me but at same time, I needs to attend classes which
create pressure of work on me. In order to overcome of it, I learn to manage time that
allow me to eliminate non necessary work from my schedule and invest that time on
important work (Yablonsky, 2018). It is an important skill for which I need to prepare time
table and to do list that provide me information that which work is to be done by me
today. It assists me to gain knowledge and information ineffective manner and completing
work on time.
Conclusion:
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What is something you need to work on after this unit?
From above mentioned discussion, it can be concluded that I need to work on my
communication skill that is important for me in order to develop good career opportunity.
It is also important for purpose of sharing my ideas, thoughts, work in effective manner
that create good impression of me in minds of others. It is essential in different sector that
assist me for finding out good opportunity.
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