Fringe Medical Data breach study

[Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>]

 From Information week: http://bit.ly/9atMFV


Medical Data at Risk
By Nicole Lewis
InformationWeek
April 7, 2010 10:07 AM

Theft of computer equipment, staff and third-party negligence, and 
inside hackers caused the majority of patient data breaches.

A new study from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems 
Society reports that since January 2008, more than 110 healthcare 
organizations have reported the loss of sensitive patient data affecting 
over 5,306,000 individuals.

The findings, published in the 2010 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of 
Patient Data, show that the vast majority of the 250 healthcare IT and 
security professionals surveyed have policies, procedures and technology 
in place at their organizations to prevent data theft. But changes made 
to protect medical records haven't curbed the number of reported 
breaches, which increased six percent since 2008.

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