Common Headline in 2015: Healthcare Data Breach

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...

Are we still not encrypting our data in a time when cyber-attacks have been happening to so many big names in the healthcare, retail and government? Recently, UCLA Health System’s computer network was broken into by hackers and may have accessed sensitive information on as many as 4.5 million patients. The information included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, Medicare and health plan identification numbers as well as some medical information such as...

Are we still not encrypting our data in a time when cyber-attacks have been happening to so many big names in the healthcare, retail...

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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