Becker's Healthcare November 7, 2024
There were 28 states that reported healthcare data breaches by HIPAA-regulated entities in August 2024, according to a recent report published Sept. 24 by The HIPAA Journal.
August represented an uptick from what had been a downward trend in data breaches since March 2024, during which there were 49 data breaches of 500 or more healthcare records recorded to the Department of Health and Human Services. Despite the recent uptick, data breaches are still down from August 2023, which saw...