By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Large-scale health data breaches reported by doctors and health plans have been rising steadily, a new report shows. From 2010 to 2013, nearly 1000 large breaches affected more than 29 million individual health records, and more than half resulted from theft or loss of laptops, thumb drives and paper records, according to researchers with access to government data. “While electronic data security and privacy is not a problem that is unique to healthcare, individually identifiable health data cannot be easily reset or changed once it has been compromised like credit card information can, for example,” said lead author Dr. Vincent Liu of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California. “Electronic health records and other emerging technologies for using health data have great potential to improve the delivery of high-value healthcare, however, we must ensure that our patients' data remains secure,” Liu told Reuters Health by email. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
No comments:
Post a Comment