Where does my data go?

The digitised future of the healthcare industry poses threats, benefits and grey areas with regards to data usage. For healthcare organisations, the introduction of technology has provided the opportunity to re-model the way in which care is delivered to patients. Such revolutionary advances create a clean, organised and efficient environment for the healthcare industry where previously hardcopy patient files and documents caused manifold issues.

The evolution of a digitised healthcare industry although it has brought great benefits such as apps that are swift in functionality, improve employee productivity and consequently cut the health care costs and provide the patients with the best care, questions of how the data is being used after its primary function of treating patients always looms. As the world becomes more digital so do criminals. The cyber world is now more dangerous than ever with malicious and unidentifiable hackers, ‘dark’ browsers and decentralised cryptocurrencies which further encourage corrupt activities. As previously discussed the NHS experienced the ultimate healthcare horror of their patient record software being infiltrated by unknown hackers who demanded Bitcoin in order to release them from their clutches.

In such a world where criminals can anonymously attack global and publicly trading firms global data enforcements give a guaranteed surety especially as the healthcare industry becomes more and more digitised. Recent regulations such as the GDPR cushions many healthcare focused technological systems such as The Pandora Care System. The core of the Pandora Care Management System is employee and patient management and thus the personal data is constantly being processed. Pandora Care Management System aggressively aligns with all data protection enforcements to ensure that our clients and their patients receive the best system that is sure-guarded. The recent data protection enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. The GDPR defines a broad set of rights and principles governing the protection and use of EU citizens’ data, independent of physical location. Having a firm understanding of these regulations and how to implement them allows the Pandora X Care Management System to proudly boast of a top standard custom system that provides ease to employees and employers and is most importantly secure in an online world where corruption can reign without any limiting boundaries.