Healthcare continues to be a lucrative target for hackers with weaponized ransomware, misconfigured cloud storage buckets, and phishing emails. Discuss how an organization can protect patients’ information through:

Healthcare continues to be a lucrative target for hackers with weaponized ransomware, misconfigured cloud storage buckets, and phishing emails. Discuss how an organization can protect patients’ information through:

Information Security in a World of Technology

Introduction

The contemporary healthcare delivery system is a multifaceted system that is faced with numerous competing demands. One of those demands pertains to the calls for elevated quality and safety in the provision of care. Notably, with the advent of health information technology solutions such as electronic health records, patients are at significant risk of being exposed to security vulnerabilities that come from unauthorized third parties, such as hackers. Consequently, the following literature aims to present some of the techniques that can be used to safeguard the personal health information of patients, such as training staff on security measures. Additionally, the article also explores some of the educational approaches that may be used to offer training to the staff.

Education Methods

Instructor-led training:  This education model involves classroom or instructor-led training that is delivered using an instructor to the audience of learners that are present within a classroom setting or via AV technology. The deployment of instructor-led training is usually time-consuming as it calls for the least amount of work hours among the staff.  Besides, numerous costs accompany the use of this educational technique, including salaries of the trainers, salaries of the support staff, technology, end-users, and replacement staff (Hebda et al., 2019 .p.223). The best approach to evaluate the success of this educational model is through formative evaluation. Formative evaluation appraises the effectiveness of instructor-led training on a wide range of issues, including the success of the training and its ability to meet learners’ needs alongside the content (Buckley, 2018).

Self-Guided Learning: Even though rarely used, the self-guided learning approach uses text-based training manuals or materials that the learner may follow to gather new knowledge or skills. This is considered a cost-efficient educational approach as the only costs covered include those of producing stapled copies of manuscripts or digital training manuals. One major drawback of this learning approach pertains to the little-to-no ability to monitor compliance with training alongside the lack of instructional interaction with end-users (Hebda et al., 2019, p.223). Subsequently, this may make the educational model difficult to evaluate. However, one effective evaluation technique that can be used in this circumstance is knowledge evaluation. This involves the assessment of how the learner has gained new information and knowledge from self-guided learning (Buckley, 2018).

Blended learning: Blended learning integrates the element of several different education techniques in a bid to maximize learning and application while also reducing the costs linked to substantial time spent in a classroom. This model of learning typically may use print-based or web-based instructions for the preparation of ILT that emphasize the incorporation of concepts (Hebda et al., 2019, p.224). As such, the most effective evaluation technique that can be used in this case is reaction evaluation, which is largely based on the evaluation of the reaction or the response to the training (Buckley, 2018