Security Boulevard December 30, 2021
Eric Kedrosky

Healthcare is a highly sensitive and heavily regulated industry. Recently, the healthcare and life science industry is being overwhelmed by cyberthreats. The rising demand for improved quality healthcare, products, experiences, services, and information has left the industry vulnerable to bad actors wanting to capitalize on the weakness. This past year proved to be a particularly dire year for the healthcare industry facing data breaches. Overall, 40,099,751 individuals’ records were affected by exposures reported to the federal government.

As required by HITECH and HIPAA, covered entities must report healthcare data breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI.)More than 550 organizations reported healthcare data breaches to the federal government in 2021, impacting over 40 million individuals. One has to wonder about the...

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIPAA, HITECH, Provider, Technology
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