Identify guidelines for disposal of data.
Identification should include
- defining the term media sanitization
- trends in data storage media
- magnetic media
- flash memory-based storage devices, or solid-state drives (SSDs)
- self-encrypting drives (SEDs)
- cloud storage options
- trends in sanitization
- overwrite techniques
- destructive techniques
- cryptographic erase (CE)
- categories of sanitization
- clear
- purge
- destroy.
Teacher Resource: Guidelines for Media Sanitization (https://www.hhs.gov/answers/hipaa/what-is-phi/index.html Links to an external site.), National Institute of Standards and Technology
Process/Skill Questions:
- How secure are flash drives that contain patient information?
- Is it possible to secure a flash drive that contains patient information?