How does Care Everywhere handle patient privacy and access control?

• A. Through role-based access control, authentication, audit logs, patient-level privacy settings, and organization-level data-sharing policies.
• B. By allowing universal access to all user roles.
• C. By storing data in plain text without access controls.
• D. By requiring patient manual consent for each data exchange.

Answer: (A)

Care Everywhere protects patient privacy with a layered security model that ties identity, permissions, and governance together. Role-based access control assigns users to specific roles with the least-privilege principle, so clinicians can access only what their job requires. Authentication verifies who the user is before any data access is granted. Audit logs capture every access and action, providing a trail for accountability and security monitoring. Patient-level privacy settings let individuals decide what parts of their information can be accessed and shared, and with whom. Organization-level data-sharing policies set the rules for data exchange between institutions, ensuring consistent privacy controls across the network. These elements create a secure, policy-driven sharing environment rather than blanket access. Universal access would breach privacy protections, storing data in plain text would remove essential safeguards, and requiring manual consent for each exchange is impractical; instead, consent directives and predefined sharing policies guide when data can be exchanged.