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 healthcare industry finally move towards the use of encryption in hospitals and other healthcare facilities to protect vulnerable patient and hospital data? More and more preventable incidents keep occurring that put patient information at risk. A 2015 data breach study estimated that breaches cost the healthcare industry about $5.6 billion annually. As healthcare moves toward more connected care, the amount of data exchanged between organizations will only grow. This is exacerbated by...

Will the healthcare industry finally move towards the use of encryption in hospitals and other healthcare facilities to protect vulnerable patient and hospital data? ...

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