2019 health care data breaches setting records

A record-breaking 50 health care data breaches involving more than 500 records each were reported to HHS this past July, according to a report published in HIPAA Journal.
The article also said that more than 35 million individuals are known to have had their health care records “compromised, exposed, or impermissibly disclosed” thus far in 2019, which is more than the previous 3 full years combined.
One of the most recent data breaches impacted Premier Family Medical in Utah, when a hacking/IT incident occurred on the company’s network server on (Read more...)

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