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The use of information technologies has come up with many ways that are
advantageous to human health services. It has become possible to store data relating to
patients in an easy to retrieve manner (Patricia W. Iyer, 2006). Storing information relating to
a patient's health in electronic format is helpful in ensuring proper storage and retrieval, but at
the same time, there are concerns regarding the data protection and the security of the
information. Adopting information technology helps health workers to be in a position of
storing a lot of data in a small physical state and making the information accessible to other
health workers in a different locality. Further, information technology makes it easy to
investigate vast amount of data efficiently. If controls are not set on the accessibility and
integrity of data stored.
Controls should be set to ensure that only legitimate people can access data stored
electronically to ensure that the integrity of health information is upheld appropriately. If
legitimate controls are not set, then the use of technology will have a The cost-adequacy of
the technologythe business case for selection of the technologyincluding the aggregate
expenses of usage (both budgetary and as far as assets) and any cost funds that accumulate
(Skolnik, 2010). Concerns exist that the individuals who bear the best share of such expenses
are not ready to recover those costs.

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Executive summary The use of information technologies has come up with many ways that are advantageous to human health services. It has become possible to store data relating to patients in an easy to retrieve manner (Patricia W. Iyer, 2006). Storing information relating to a patient's health in electronic format is helpful in ensuring proper storage and retrieval, but at the same time, there are concerns regarding the data protection and the security of the information. Adopting information technology helps health workers to be in a position of storing a lot of data in a small physical state ...
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