About 71% of health care organizations say that federal regulations have not improved patient health record security and that adequate resources are not available to help prevent and quickly detect data breaches, according to a new study by the Ponemon Institute and ID Experts, HealthLeaders Media reports (Nicastro, HealthLeaders Media, 11/9).
For the study — titled “Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security” — researchers gathered information from 65 health care organizations (Mosquera, Government Health IT, 11/9).
Key Findings
According to 71% of survey respondents, federal regulations like the HITECH Act, which allocated $20 billion in stimulus funds for health IT, have not led to more strict management practices for the security of patient data.
The study also found that:
Seventy-four percent of survey respondents who have already implemented electronic health record systems said security of patient data is now stronger (Greenberg, “The Firewall,” Forbes, 11/8).
In addition, the study found that:
According to the study, the cost of data breaches annually is $1 million per hospital in the U.S. and about $6 billion for the industry as a whole (“The Firewall,” Forbes, 11/8).
Source: iHealthBeat
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