Medical Economics March 3, 2023
Building a foundation for cybersecurity can help physicians avoid costly mistakes.
Digital transformation is expanding the cyberattack surface in health care and other sectors. Today, threat actors are working overtime to exploit vulnerabilities in health care systems, its primary care physicians and their applications, resulting in data breaches that expose confidential and protected information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is the national standard of protection of personal health care information. HIPAA violations, hacking incidents, ransomware attacks, phishing scams, and data extortion attempts are some of the most common types of health care industry data breaches reported to regulators each year.
A major reason why the health care sector and physicians remain an attractive...
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