Ethical Use Of Personal Medical Information (PII)

Introduction
Personally, identifiable information (PII) is protected and precious to hackers, even more, valuable than the basic PII (name, address, phone number), is personal medical information. What it is called "a hacker's roadmap to your life, " and in 2010 the economic impact of this type of theft cost healthcare industries over $7 billion (Horan, 2016). Part of the problem in protecting this information is the fact that so many organizations and people have accesses to the information. This information is used by hospitals, doctor offices, insurance companies, alarm businesses and emergency services. This situation gives hackers plenty of routes to engineer their way to access the information secretly.
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is the busiest in the state it operates. Statistics found on the website, declare that it has over 250 dedicated members, provides over 2,500 volunteer hours per week and answers to over 20,000 calls for assistance each year (DCVFD, 2017). They have four main stations, operated by paid and volunteer staff during the day time from 6am-6pm and then fully staffed by volunteers 6 pm – 6 am Monday through Friday and then all day Saturday, Sunday, and federal holidays. On the web, they explicitly list their locations and area of responsibilities. The website explains how to become an active member, without any training, they will provide and pay for training. It encourages local community members to spend a night or weekend at one of their station and ride along (no background check required). Also, found on the web, phone numbers the stations, recruiting staff, and local fire chief and station
Setting up a fact profile to gain information is on the rise with social engineers (Robinson, 2015). This organization Facebook shows photos and names of members and even show significant events, like their department officer installation, which gives you an idea of who is over what stations and offices in the VFD. It was also very simple to look at and contact members of the department that had open profiles. Looking at their news feeds you made it easy to learn about the internal drama going on in the department. There were also photos on some people's web pages showing inside and outside of the fire departments. On two pages, there were pictures of the outside receiving area of the hospital, and the office inside was they complete paperwork. The photos clearly show how the information gathered on a call and recorded in a digital pad is attracted and downloaded into the hospital