Digital health data security practices among health professionals in low-resource settings: cross-sectional study in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Protecting digital health data from unauthorized access, alteration, and destruction is a crucial aspect of healthcare digitalization. Currently, digital security breaches are becoming more common. Healthcare data breaches have compromised over 50 million medical records per year. In Ethiopia, health digitization has grown gradually. However, there is a limitation of study in digital health security. Studying digital health data security helps individuals protect digital data as a baseline and contributes to developing a digital health security policy.

Objective

To assess the practice of healthcare professionals in digital health data security among specialized teaching referral hospitals in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

Method

A cross-sectional study design s

SUBMITTER: Gebeyew AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11796040 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature