Next problem is the dependency on technology. It is not uncommon for a computer system to face technical errors. This …show more content…
With the rise of electronic health records (EHR) systems, it’s becoming more and more difficult for hospitals to keep patient info secure and accurate. Between clinicians accessing health records and hospital internal email messages via tablets and smartphones, and digital hackers becoming more sophisticated in their techniques to steal patient health information/record, and caused hospitals to face many cybersecurity challenges with new healthcare technology. According to center for Medicare and Medicaid service (CMS), U.S. hospitals have spent $1.6 billion each year for healthcare security system. Breaking it down by incident, hospitals have spent on average $810,000 per security breach, which occurs at nearly one in five healthcare organizations nationwide (CMS, 2016). (To sum up, even though technology has many befits, there is no doubt there come along the risk of