What is a common risk to medical records associated with disaster?

Loss due to disaster is a common risk to medical records because disasters, whether natural like floods and earthquakes or man-made like fires or cyberattacks, can lead to the destruction or inaccessibility of physical or digital records. When facilities are damaged or destroyed, records that have not been adequately backed up or stored in offsite locations may be lost irretrievably. This highlights the importance of disaster recovery plans and robust data backup procedures to ensure that medical records can be restored or retrieved after such events.

In contrast, while inappropriate access, record tampering, and unauthorized sharing are indeed risks to medical records, they are more related to security breaches rather than the physical loss of records due to a disaster. These risks can be managed through proper security protocols and training but do not directly pertain to the physical destruction or loss that can occur in a disaster scenario.