After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Differentiate between privacy, confidentiality, information privacy, and information security.
- Discuss how information systems affect privacy, confidentiality, and security.
- Relate the significance of security for information integrity.
- Recognize threats to system security and information.
- Review several security measures designed to protect information and discuss how they work.
- Compare and contrast available means of authentication in terms of levels of security, costs and ease of use.
- Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate password selection and handling.
- State common examples of confidential forms and communication seen in health care settings and identify proper disposal techniques for each.
- Discuss the impact that Internet technology has on health information security.
- Discuss the implications of the HIPAA privacy and security rules for the protection of information security.
