A new survey on protected health information (PHI) privacy breaches
Shocking result: 70 percent of the participants had suffered one or more breaches
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Top breaches in the past 12 months by type: • Snooping into medical records of fellow employees (35 percent) |
According to the survey, insiders were responsible for the majority of breaches, with 35 percent snooping into medical records of fellow employees and 27 percent accessing records of friends and relatives.
“Given that data breaches of patient information cost healthcare organizations nearly $6 billion annually, we were not very surprised to discover that more than 70 percent of the organizations surveyed were victimized last year,” said Alan Norquist, CEO of Veriphyr.
When a breach occurred, it was detected in:
•One to three days (30 percent)
•One week (12 percent)
•Two to four weeks (17 percent)
Other findings:
• 79 percent of respondents were “somewhat concerned” or “very concerned” that their existing controls do not enable timely detection of breaches of PHI
• 52 percent stated they did not have adequate tools for monitoring inappropriate access to PHI
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