Reference no: EM133522141

Health care organizations manage large volumes of personally identifiable health information (PII), also known as personal health information (PHI), which is subject to special requirements for privacy and security under various federal, state, and local legislation. What this means is that organizations must ensure data is kept private from unauthorized people (confidentiality), and free from unapproved modification or deletion (integrity), and accessible to those who have a valid need-to-know (available). This means data should be classified into categories to manage the quality, privacy, and security of data. Based on what you reviewed this week and your interviews at Vila Health last week, consider the approach Vila Health should take to protect your data as an employee, or patients' PII/PHI.

Share your thoughts on the data classification and quality. Here are some ideas for topics.

1. What is the importance of classifying data to perform analysis?

2. What are your recommendations to protect the confidentiality of source data?

3. What in your opinion is data quality? How does the integrity principle in information security compare with data quality? Are they related or different concepts?