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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 HiThere on Thursday November 22 2018, @02:20AM
Haven't you ever visited an emergency room or a hospital? Saying that "they'd probably be declared void" is arguably correct, but that's only after you've spent a lot of time and money on lawyers. And you might be wrong.
FWIW, I think most of those agreements should be declared unconscionable, but gambling that they will be is a long shot unless you've got a firm of lawyers on retainer. Even then...I'm not sure.
I do think that most of those forms are really intended as lawyer repellent, but I find them pretty repelling, too. Unfortunately I can't avoid them.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.