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Health Data Security Breaches May Be More Common Than You Think


BY BRIAN EASTWOOD


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EALTH DATA breaches are costing the industry an estimated $6.5 billion annually—enough to hire more than 81,000 registered nurses—and the


situation is unfortunately poised to get worse, according to a recent Ponemon Institute and ID Experts Corp. study. “It looks like there will be more breaches, and bigger breaches, going forward,” ID Experts President Rich Kam said, pointing to the recent TriCare and Sutter Health


breaches—which each affected more than 4 million patients and now face billion-dollar class action lawsuits. The 2011 Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security, now in its second year, found that healthcare organizations and their business associates are increasingly lax, if not sloppy, when it comes to personal health information (PHI) security.


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