Will Healthcare Data Breaches Increase In 2016?

A recent article in Forbes addresses the massive healthcare data breaches in 2015 where over 112 million records were lost, stolen or inappropriately accessed. The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) under the department of Health and Human Services publishes these data breaches as reported to it and required by HIPAA. The numbers are a bit staggering. The top ten data breaches accounted for the majority of the violations and most of the headlines focused...

A recent article in Forbes addresses the massive healthcare data breaches in 2015 where over 112 million records were lost, stolen or inappropriately accessed. ...

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...

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