Nearly 350,000 patient data breaches reported since 2009
Revenue Cycle Advisor May 23, 2018
Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was implemented in 2009, HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has received a total of 347,090 reports on breaches of patient data, according to a report published by Health Information Privacy/Security Alert.
Roughly 344,823 of those breaches affected fewer than 500 patients each, the report said. Of those breaches, 2,267 appeared on the...