April 07, 2015

6 Important Implications of a Healthcare Facility Breach

Privacy laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act require healthcare organizations to protect all personal health information (PHI).

But that doesn’t mean the health data is safe.

Almost every organization in the 2014 Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security by Ponemon experienced a healthcare data breach. In fact, criminal attacks on healthcare systems have risen 100% since Ponemon first conducted the study in 2010.

The stats aren't going to change any time soon, according to the Experian 2015 Second Annual Data Breach Industry Forecast. It concludes that healthcare breaches will continue to increase due to the potential economic gain (PHI is worth a lot to cybercriminals), digitization of medical records (a lot of health information is moving about) and the wearable technologies trend (it added many more individuals to healthcare systems).

What happens when a healthcare organization is the victim of a data breach?

Find out why a Document Management policy is one of the most important ways to protect health data in your workplace.