As a project manager overseeing the development of a healthcare application, your team needs to test features that involve patient information. Which approach should you implement to protect sensitive data during testing?
Encrypt patient data and use it in testing environments.
Restrict access to real patient data to key team members during testing.
Use de-identified or anonymized data for testing.
Share real patient data with the team for thorough testing.
Using de-identified or anonymized data for testing ensures that no personal identifiers are included, protecting patient privacy and complying with regulations related to PHI. While encrypting real patient data adds security, it still involves handling sensitive information that could be compromised. Restricting access limits exposure but doesn't eliminate the risk associated with using actual patient data. Sharing real patient data with the team, even for testing purposes, violates privacy regulations and increases the risk of unauthorized disclosure.
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