Physicians Practice March 14, 2022
Healthcare has been a big target for hackers.
Amid the lingering effects of a global pandemic and federal efforts to tie disparate healthcare IT systems together to fuel data interoperability, HIPAA violations may have slipped from the headlines.
But make no mistake — those who want to illegally access privileged health information (PHI) are still working hard to exploit technological shortfalls and human weaknesses to obtain data. The number of breach incidents and affected records both set records in 2021, with 45 million breached patient records in 679 total events, according to the Office of Civil Rights’ Breach Portal, the so-called “Wall of Shame.” The number of breaches increased just over 2%, but the number of breached records exploded by...
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