DOTmed May 28, 2024
Despite years of efforts to stop it, the problem of cyberattacks in healthcare just seems to grow worse each year, with the latest ones grabbing world headlines in 2024.
Today, healthcare security breaches occur twice as often as they did in 2018, with two large healthcare data breaches reported each day on average in 2023, according to the HIPAA Journal.
In 2023, there were 725 data breaches of more than 500 patient records reported to the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, a record-setting number. The growing prevalence of cyberattacks is evidence that many healthcare organizations are failing at basic security measures and are not consistently adhering to cybersecurity best practices due to a variety of...
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