AHIMA October 23, 2023
Healthcare data breaches affect millions of people every year, and it’s a growing problem. Medical records include financial and personal information that hackers can sell on the dark web and use for various other nefarious purposes. In 2022, healthcare organizations in the United States suffered an average of 1,410 weekly cyberattacks per organization—an 86 percent increase compared to 2021. As an industry, healthcare consistently has the highest number of data compromises, and the number of healthcare data breaches continues to increase each year.
“Healthcare data has a lot of value, and as an industry, there’s also a lot of legacy systems that may not be secure,” says Charles Hale, PMP, CISM, founder and president of Hale Consulting Solutions, a firm...
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