Assignment 1:

Information Literacy
2 Transitioning from paper to electronic health records with inadequate security
system leaves patients information unguarded. Pam Dixon, a researcher of medical
data breaches for the World Privacy Forum stated "digitized health records are jet
fuel for medical identity theft." Patients medical records contain highly sensitive
information which can be sold for a profit. Federal law does require providers to
protect patient information, and will take corrective action against medical providers
with weak security.
3 keywords - electronic medical records, electronic health records, security, cyber
security, news
I used yahoo, and bing for my search engines. Both search engines eventually got
me to what I was looking for. I did prefer bing over yahoo the layout was easier to
navigate. Bing bolds the words from my search in the results which helped me
narrow my search. It was more difficult using yahoo to find an article I wanted to
use. On yahoo the search engine displays ads at the beginning and end of the
search, and hard to differentiate between the results and ads.
4 TRAAP
1. The article was written on February 12, 2015 at 4:55 am.
2. Yes, the article talks about security issues regarding patients electronic health
records.
3. The author is Aarti Shahani . She is qualified to write about this topic. I was
unable to find any information about the author on the National Public Radio
website where the article was published. I found on Linkedin that she has a
Master's of public policy degree. She also has published many other articles
for NPR, and other sites.
4. The information in the article is trustworthy, and is supported by evidence.
For example Aarti Shahani has quotes in the article from Jeanie Larson who is
a member of the National Health ISAC, a group trying to raise standards for
hospital security. She has statistics from Symantec which is a security
business.
5. The article was written to inform the reader about health care fraud. I do not
believe the article has any bias.
5 Scholarly Journal
I used keywords electronic health, health information technology, medical
health records,
security. I used the CCBC library database it was
easy to navigate. CCBC database bolds the
words from my search.
By the keywords being bolded in the search results made it easier to
decide which articles to use
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Assignment 1:
Information Literacy

7 MLA
Van Cleavec, Kris. "As More Medical Records Go Online, Government Scrutiny Lags."
CBSNews. CBS Interactive, 6 Feb. 2015. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.
Shahani, Aarti. "The Black Market For Stolen Health Care Data." NPR. NPR, 13 Feb.
2015. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.
Haber, Gary, and Brandie Kessler. "Electronic Medical Records Have Security
Advantages, but Systems Aren't Perfect." Ydr.com. Daily Record/Sunday News, 22
June 2014. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.
Jannetti, Marcie C. "In Focus: Safeguarding Patient Information in Electronic Health
Records." Aorn Journal. Elsevier Inc, Sept. 2014. Web. 23 Feb. 2.
Haleh Ayatollahi, MSc, PhD; Nader Mirani, MSc; and Hamid Haghani, MSc. Electronic Health
Records: What Are the Most Important Barriers? Perspectives in Health Information
Management (Fall 2014): 1-12.