Introduction
Medical identity theft and data security breaches have become quite commonplace these days with thousands of reports registered every year. As healthcare management grows increasingly reliant on computerized patient record, more of such issues concerning privacy, security and confidentiality breaches are coming to the fore. The total automation of patient record makes the confidentiality of information vulnerable to unauthorized access and therefore nurses and physicians who have authorized access to the information should be more responsible for keeping the data secure from all kinds of insidious infiltration. Unauthorized access is not the only security challenge facing the healthcare management. ...
