Data Security and Privacy in Wireless Body

Question: Describe about the Data Security and Privacy in Wireless Body? Answer: 1: The legal issue in the said case is of violation of privacy law, which is breached by an ex-employee working in a hospital who in an unauthorised manner collected PHI from 1000 patients which is considered to be confidential information. Medical records are protected under the federal laws made on privacy by the Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1996 (HIPAA) (Li, Lou Ren, 2010). Therefore in the said case ex-employee Terry is alleged to have violated the privacy laws under HIPAA and the hospital is entitled to sue him. 2: There are many provisions in the United States legislation to protect privacy laws, which is breached, in the present case. Therefore You facility in its investigation should fist find out whether Terry has used the confidential information in a way that would harm the facility and then decide under which law they need to file a lawsuit against Terry. You facility has three available grounds to select one for suing Terry which are privacy tort, appropriation of someones name or reputation and publication of confidential information (McGraw, 2013). 3: In the present case, after You Facility was intimated by their employee Sean of the violation of privacy law that was committed by Terry, the You Facility was eligible to sue Terry for violation of privacy law under Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1996 (Rumrill, 2010). You Facility had to prove is that there was public disclosure of confidential facts, the same was offensive to a practical person and the disclosed fact was not a valid new material. Reference List Li, M., Lou, W., Ren, K. (2010). Data security and privacy in wireless body area networks.Wireless Communications, IEEE,17(1), 51-58. McGraw, D. (2013). Building public trust in uses of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act de-identified data.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association,20(1), 29-34. Rumrill, P. D. (2010).Employment issues and multiple sclerosis. ReadHowYouWant. com.