It is often distressing to face the loss of privacy with technological breach and can be daunting to be in a state of insecurity. Moreover the loss of data and security breach ends up with diminished productivity, less revenue, faded brand name and finally adding more on to the burden, investment for recovery should be intensified. But in the case of the Health care industry the outcome is much more complicated and so the loss should also be a larger negative. Apart from all these a downfall in protecting the patient data can destroy lives of many innocents.

In fact, incentives for the health care providers are being expanded at the higher level and subsequently the adaption of the electronic technology has also increased tremendously. For instance, in early 2008 only around 10% of hospital had the facility and coming forward to 6 years, the growth of digital adaption in the hospitals has increased 76%. Along with that, use of the electronic health records in private practice has doubled.

The benefits that come along with the digital facility were spread over to clinical as well as operational departments. But the negativities comes main two risks that it possesses.

1. The first risk is the fear of data loss, which can happen with an accident in power terminals or also with the natural disasters affecting the data center. Such risk leading to data loss, can affect the treatment like prescribing a harming medicine for the allergic patient due to missing information.
2. The second risk is the hacking of the data that belongs to the confidential category. This can lead to illegal sharing of the patient information like personal, medical as well as financial information.

Further, many researches reveals the health care industry as main target for the hackers. Along with that many professional executives in the industry accept their history of being victimized by the toxic forces or hackers.

Anyhow as the medical society becoming more dependent on the Electronic Health Records (EHR), parallel steps must be taken to safeguard the privacy of the patient under all kind of threats, whether it is technical, personal or natural. So the recommended strategies in handling data privacy are listed below:

Cloud-based backup

Here the information related to patient will be copied to the interior database and that too automatically. This offers unrestricted access to the data by the responsible authority, even if the online data has been wiped out by some natural disasters or technical mishandling. Indeed this strengthens the concept of restoring the patient information and thus sharing information for completion of successful treatment.

Partnering with Disaster Recovery Provider

It is impossible to make things happen in the expected line alone. Perhaps, it is normal to have disasters and the success of handling it comes with aversion from permanent loss of data. So, how the patients deeply rely on the hospitals or practitioner, the health care providers must show the willingness to work forward with the discovery management professionals.

Anyhow the increasing threat of ransom-ware must be handled with responsibility. Usually the hackers fetch the victims data, encrypt it and following demand money for reversing it to original. Many organizations are hiding the reality because of the fear of losing reputation and so are not ready to go in public with the threat. The precautionary steps can prevent the organization from going into danger in the future and at the same time risks prevails where the attack has already happened or in progress. Moreover, the technology in malware is so complicated and so the professional IT is having a hard time in dealing it. In most of the cases the victim is lost to the hacker and that is they surrender the money in demand of encryption. Yet, further darker side prevails with crackers planned intention for not going ahead with decryption even after paying the money.

In every respect the digital processing of data can offer effortless access to patient records by the authorized staffs. Apart from this, it improves the data sharing status between the doctors, nurses and patient in a transparent mode. But at the same time the responsibility of protecting the patient information do lies with the management and so investing on such tools is mandatory.