Cognitive Fuzzy Modeling for Enhanced Risk Assessment in a Health Care Institution

ALTHOUGH HEALTH CARE HAS long been lagging behind other industries in adopting computer technologies, the health care industry is now using information technology in almost every health care sector across the globe. This has resulted in major transformations of the entire industry, aimed at maximizing the quality of medical care while minimizing costs.1 However, storing health care information electronically does raise concerns about the risk of exposing highly confidential and sensitive health care information to outsiders. The health care domain must properly assess the possible risks of computerization and make recommendations for, at best, preventing such risks and, at worst, minimizing them. Because health care information systems are unique, they require a different approach to risk assessment.