Medical Economics September 12, 2024
The volume of cyberattacks on health care facilities should be a resounding wake-up call for all physicians who own their practices.
Health care has the unfortunate distinction of being the most targeted industry for cyber attackers — and has the most expensive average cost of a data breach. In 2023, according to IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average cost was just shy of $10 million, a top spot health care has earned in the report since 2011.
Not only are threat actors successfully breaching more organizations and records, but their attack methods are increasingly more sophisticated, now enhanced by artificial intelligence and machine learning. On top of this, unrelenting security issues remain across the industry. Many...
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