BC Advantage - 2017 Issue 5

Healthcare Practices Should Heed Warnings by FBI

Digital healthcare security has become a primary concern in the last few years for a variety of organizations affiliated with the medical industry, most of which are fending off more and more attacks from cybercriminals seeking to obtain access to personally identifiable information (PII) or protected health information (PHI). According to an article in the HIPAA Journal, while 2016 only saw a fraction of 2015’s total number of compromised records, more than 16 million records were still compromised throughout the year—and even more undiscovered breaches may have occurred within organizations whose monitoring practices did not catch the...

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