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Health care providers – not hackers – leak more of your data
Your personal identity may fall at the mercy of sophisticated hackers on many websites, but when it comes to health data breaches, hospitals, doctors offices and even insurance companies are oftentimes the culprits.
New research from Michigan State University and Johns Hopkins University found that more than half of the recent personal health information, or PHI, data breaches were because of internal issues with medical providers – not because of hackers or external parties.
“There’s no perfect way to store information, but more than half of the cases we reviewed were not triggered by external factors – but rather by internal negligence,” said John (Xuefeng) Jiang, lead author and associate professor of accounting and information systems at MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business.
The research, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, follows the joint 2017 study that showed the magnitude of hospital data breaches in the United States. The research revealed nearly 1,800 occurrences of large data breaches in patient information over seven years, with 33 hospitals experiencing more than one substantial breach.
(Score: 2) by Spamalope on Wednesday November 21 2018, @12:33PM (1 child)
Health Care providers SELL more of your data
Fixed that title for yah.
I've been forced to use worker comp. My specific health information has been sold. I know because telemarketing scammers keep calling with sales pitches for products aimed at my specific injuries. This began within a month of the injury.
Of course, there is a possibility that one of the faux health providers is actually the telemarketer group as well.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday November 21 2018, @07:40PM
Not possible, look up HIPAA.
Note that HIPAA doesn't cover non-health care providers that you willingly give information to. I can't speak for worker comp, but worker comp is not a health care provider. Please do not make false, uninformed claims.
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