Medical institutions need to receive information from citizens that is confidential, and this is not only the name, passport data, phone number, insurance and health information. Information about marital status, property, accounts and deposits are also absolutely mandatory to provide. This personal data is necessary to protect the life, health and other vital interests of the patient. In the activities of medical institutions, this information is necessary for various reasons. One of them is the reason for the regulatory order (Abu-elezz et al., 2020). For example, the formats of medical registration cards established by ministries and departments require filling in these data in connection with the subsequent payment for treatment.
Patients should not have complete control over the transmission of the information in their health records. Patients have the right in relation to their personal data to demand their blocking, clarification, destruction, if this information is incomplete, irrelevant, incorrect, obtained illegally, is not needed for the stated purposes of processing. Moreover, the patient has the right to protect their rights provided for by law in relation to the processing, transfer, storage of personal data (Abu-elezz et al., 2020). However, it would be wrong to give the patient full control over personal data, due to the fact that the processing of personal data is necessary to protect the life, health or other vital interests of the patient or the life, health or other vital interests of others.
Full rights on their personal data would allow patients to erase prior treatments, ailments, and symptoms that are no longer related to their care. The doctor records the patient’s condition and the changes taking place with his health. This is a very important point, because many diseases manifest themselves in such a way that only the results of the examination by several doctors will prompt the doctor with the correct diagnosis (Tanwar et al., 2020). All test data is entered into the card and all vaccinations are recorded. The doctor may change, but the doctor who replaced him will have to be aware of all medical events that occurred with the patient. During the patient’s lifetime, new diseases may occur that will be related to their card. Therefore, it is absolutely unacceptable to make any changes to the medical history.
The United States note addressing its lack of individual privacy protections, specifically, its lack of health data privacy protections due to negligent handling of data. According to research, less personal data began to leak from American medical institutions, but the share of purposefully sold information has seriously increased (Abu-elezz et al., 2020). Although companies focus on hacking activities, it is worth paying attention to employees who carry out deliberate leaks for the purpose of additional earnings. In addition, medical organizations continue to finance the direction of cybersecurity on a residual basis. Until they change their approach, the number of leaks will grow.
In today’s technological world, it is not reasonable for patients to have the expectation that the information in their health records will be safe. Technological progress stimulates cybercrime and increases the risk of information leaks. Therefore, even with the achievement of cyber resilience, which focuses information security on the protection of critical information, it is impossible to guarantee complete data security (Tanwar et al., 2020). Using modern technical means of protection and properly integrating them into the infrastructure can reduce the likelihood of data leakage. However, the regular appearance of new schemes of theft of personal information excludes the possibility of total data security.
References
Abu-elezz, I., Hassan, A., Nazeemudeen, A., Househ, M., & Abd-alrazaq, A. (2020). The benefits and threats of blockchain technology in healthcare: A scoping review. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 142(2), 46–53.
Tanwar, S., Parekh, K., & Evans, R. (2020). Blockchain-based electronic healthcare record system for healthcare 4.0 applications. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 50(72), 2214–2126.