Experts discuss healthcare cybersecurity

2016 averaged one healthcare data breach per day


Becker's Hospital Review recently spoke with healthcare cybersecurity experts about what can be done to mitigate breaches, according to an article on the Becker's website.

The year 2016 averaged one healthcare data breach per day. The reason healthcare has been a popular target is because there is so much protected health information in electronic health records, according to Donald Voltz, MD, of Canton, Ohio-based Aultman Hospital.

"When data was on paper, it wasn't as valuable. With the dawn of the web, all that data became much more valuable than it ever was before. The ability to track people across web searches makes the information valuable and easy to access," David Finn, health information technology officer of Mountain View, Calif.-based Symantec, said in the article.

"I've heard more about cybersecurity in this last year than I've ever heard about it in my whole career," said Juliet Breeze, MD, CEO and medical director of Sugar Land, Texas-based Next Level Urgent Care and vice president of Katy, Texas-based Vantage Hospice.

Read the article.

 

 



January 31, 2017


Topic Area: Security


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