Abstract

The smart healthcare environment offers plenty of opportunities to help organizations and healthcare practitioners offer better services to the patients. The increasingly networked nature of the healthcare environment coupled with the introduction of Internet of Things devices in the mix allow physicians to both deliver critical-care and preventive medicine services to their patients more effectively and efficiently. However, the smart healthcare environment exposes the patients’ data to various risks including exposure. The two biggest threats to patients’ data privacy are (1) lack of understanding of various policies and regulations that are in place and how they affect the handling of patients’ data and (2) the threats that are posed by the hackers. A recent study indicated the lack of knowledge of general population as to how information is processed, transmitted, and stored in a corporate environment. This chapter intends to educate the reader regarding various prevalent legislation and the threats that can potentially expose corporate digital assets and patients’ sensitive data.

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