Medical Practice Technical Risks – What Are They and How Can They Be Mitigated?

EXPLANATION OF THE MOST COMMON TYPES OF INFORMATION ASSURANCE RISKS TECHNICAL RISKS Risk: Lack of unique user identification for every workforce member prior to obtaining access to ePHI. Explanation: A user identifier is typically a name or a number or a combination of numbers and characters put together to form a string of characters that uniquely identify a user. This unique user identifier allows the information system to track the activities that a user makes in the information system. This is done so that every user of the system can be held accountable for his/her functions performed on the information…