Patient privacy is considered such an important issue that
legislation has been passed to make sure that doctors and other
health care providers retain the confidentiality of their patients'
records. This
paper discusses the implementation of this legislation, known as HIPAA, and the difficulties faced by the health care sector due to the vulnerability of modern-day
technology. While technology makes
information, such as medical records, more accessible, it also allows systems to be abused by hackers. The paper examines how these problems are dealt with on an organizational and managerial level.