Your Expert Advice

Greetings,

I'm a high tech journalist who is working on a novel. A key part of the plot is discovering a hack job and perhaps one of you experts could help.

The scenario is doctor has hired a hacker to replace his ID in the name field of a specific patient with someone elses. The hacker is an IT manager who's willing to break the rules for a few extra bucks, but he forgets that his password and login can be traced.

Now, the real question is if electronic patient records contain several fields, how could one prove that a specific person altered a specific field on a specific date? So far I've been told by software engineers that you'd only see a change in the timestamp, in which case you couldn't prove specifically what happened.

I can't believe that's the real answer. Could someone who knows the answer please tell me what it is?

Many thanks.

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