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Although health care organizations are eager to embrace new technology, the industry is not adequately prepared to address potential data breaches, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Reuters reports.
For the report, PwC’s Health Research Institute conducted 600 interviews with health care executives in the spring of 2011.
Researchers found that about 74% of health care organizations plan to expand their use of electronic health data. However, the report also found that:
Most Health Data Breaches Carried Out by Insiders
James Koenig — co-lead of PwC’s Health Information Privacy and Security Practice — said the survey found that health data breaches often are carried out by “knowledgeable insiders — such as people in admissions, billing, computer programmers, the janitorial staff, even in security — who get access either to building facilities or to computer systems for information” (Eisenberg, Bloomberg Businessweek, 9/22).
Researchers found that:
According to the report, theft accounted for about 66% of publicly reported health data breaches (Bloomberg Businessweek, 9/22).
Source: iHealthBeat
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