Healthcare Biometrics Security and Regulations: Biometrics Data Security and Regulations Governing PHI and HIPAA Act for Patient Privacy

Abstract

The digitizing medical record has seen a pattern shift in the healthcare industry which increases the data in terms of complexity, diversity, and timeliness. Healthcare industry is encounters crucial threat owing to security breaches of healthcare databases. The patients were provided to destitution due to scamming data and stolen information by medical identity theft like data breaches are not influenced patients who are PHI (Protected Health Information) and PII (Personally Identifiable Information) but healthcare institutions. Automated health care system introducing personal and electronic health records (PHRs and EHRs) increase more data risk which advises privacy and security policies measures. Biometrics need in healthcare industry is increasing in the worldwide healthcare market. This paper identifies the healthcare data breaches and their primary causes with the role of PHI and HIPAA Act for dissuading data breaches. HIPAA Privacy Rule provides policies and standards to preserve Protected Health Information (PHI) of individuals held by the entities. In biometric market HIPAA Act enforces various needs to preserve confidentiality and privacy of patient information attained from healthcare facilities to develop fulfillment for dealing various principles.