You Can Stop Healthcare Data Breaches

Today, nobody argues that the healthcare industry is a gold mine for the bad guys and theft of protected health information is becoming a regular event. The “Verizon 2015 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report,” indicated that 90 percent of industries in the medical and health care arena have experienced a PHI breach and with all the reports in the media, it is clear to everyone that the situation has reached a critical point....

Today, nobody argues that the healthcare industry is a gold mine for the bad guys and theft of protected health information is becoming a...

Will the bad news every stop making the headlines? Evidence now indicates that hackers with connections to China were responsible for the recent data breaches at United Airlines, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and health insurer Anthem. In addition, on July 31, the University of Connecticut (UConn) announced that their engineering school servers were hit by a cyberattack originating from China. United Airlines, the second-largest airline in the world detected a cyberattack into its...

Will the bad news every stop making the headlines? Evidence now indicates that hackers with connections to China were responsible for the recent data...

How many more data breaches can patients take? This could ultimately be the question based on last year and this year’s surge of healthcare data breaches. Once again, the personal health information of 3,000 people was leaked after a data breach at a Georgia program that offers services for seniors. The breach included the health diagnoses of people in the Community Care Services Program. What was the cause? An email was mistakenly sent to...

How many more data breaches can patients take? This could ultimately be the question based on last year and this year’s surge of healthcare...

I don’t know how much more we can continue talking about healthcare data breaches. This is again a multi week of data breaches in the healthcare industry, and again over and over. With Anthem Inc. and then again with Premera Blue Cross, and Advantage Dental, all announced they had data breaches, however nothing about if there data was encrypted. How can 80 million and then 11 million then finally 150,000 patient records all in...

I don’t know how much more we can continue talking about healthcare data breaches. This is again a multi week of data breaches in...

All the data breaches in the news these days have caused many to think about encrypting their data to prevent the losses a breach will bring. With one of the biggest private health care providers in the US falling victim to a massive data breach, we can learn from its experience. Even though credit card information wasn’t exposed, other sensitive data was, including names, birthdays, medical IDs/social security numbers, street addresses, email addresses and...

All the data breaches in the news these days have caused many to think about encrypting their data to prevent the losses a breach...

It definitely has been one of the worst weeks for data breaches in the healthcare industry. We went from big news from Worcester, MA with UMASS Memorial Medical Group (UMMG) reporting an insider data breach of about 14,000 patient health information, to probably the biggest not healthcare data breach but potentially the biggest breach of the year with up to 80 million patient personal records on the line. The recent breaches have sparked debate...

It definitely has been one of the worst weeks for data breaches in the healthcare industry. We went from big news from Worcester, MA...

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