This study aim sat identifying the current countermeasures used in protecting the Electronic Healthcare Record and how employees share their knowledge about the existence Electronic Healthcare Record security as well as countermeasures used in mitigating the threats and data breaches in healthcare organizations. A case study of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Nigeria was used and qualitative research method was adopted where purposive and stratified random sampling was used. This led to construction of eleven relevant questions to four categories of staff. A conceptual frame work was proposed to quid the study and the findings we reevaluated using the proposed frame work. There sults revealed that there is lack of knowledge sharing among employees and some factors were found to be the resistance factors, this include educational background, behavior, low security awareness, personality differences and lack of management commitment. On the other hand, deterrent, preventive and organizational actions were partially practiced as countermeasures used to mitigate the threats and vulnerability of data breaches of Electronic Healthcare Records in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Nigeria.
Electronic Healthcare Records, Security and Management, Countermeasures, Knowledge Sharing
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