Professional and Regulatory Accountability

The informational benefits afforded by the use of ICTs need to be countered with efforts to minimize potential risks to data integrity, confidentiality and system access.  It has become common for health care organizations to formulate information privacy and security policies, informed by jurisdictional and national legislative guidelines and regulations.

Additionally, the pervasiveness of personal computing devices, smartphones, and social media has introduced many new potential threats to informational privacy in health care and society in general.