A Strategic Data Protection Plan for the Healthcare Industry-A Review

Abstract

Since revolutionary digitization has taken hold in all industries and companies, the excessive growth of data is overtaking the world around us. With this explosion of data comes an increased responsibility to protect it from external threats, exploitation and misuse of information. The healthcare industry is expanding its horizons with the latest cutting-edge technologies such as robotic process automation, cloud transformation and digitization, generating several zettabytes of data every year. With this excessive data growth, the responsibility to protect the data from external threats, exploitation and information misuse is also increasing. The steep rise in data breaches, disclosure of important public and corporate data, fraudulent activities such as threatening phone calls, false insurance claims, and even illegal monetary claims have rocked the world. This in turn increases the urgency and need for an advanced, standardized data protection strategy. In this research study, the Scopus database has been used as a source for a bibliometric analysis to discuss recent research activities on big data protection. The expected outcome of this research is a broader understanding of how organizations operating in the healthcare sector are addressing overall data management by shaping existing organizational policies and adapting new security standards.