By Deborah Hirsch
HealthTechZone Contributor
Originally published July 19, 2012
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The healthcare industry has the highest percentage of data breaches of any sector, according to a report by Symantec. Healthcare also had the highest number of reported breaches, at 43 percent, Patricia Resende reports.
And the costs continue to rise, with each breach costing organizations $5.5 million, and each compromised record, $194, the Symantec study reports. And even though the costs have dropped slightly from several years ago, according to a Ponemon study, healthcare is the one area where they have not. Physicians’ offices and small clinics say they have lost more than 54,000 patient records due to breaches since 2009.
And they’ve occurred all over the country, from Utah, where the files of almost 300,000 Medicaid patients were breached in March, to Boston, where the laptop of a Boston Children’s Hospital employee at a South American conference containing more than 2000 patient records was stolen.
The entire story is here.
