研究显示美国医院数据偷盗和遗失花费60亿美元的代价

研究显示美国医院数据偷盗和遗失花费60亿美元的代价

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3 z( |% ?/ v# Z# `( m- w' H5 TData breaches in the health-care world aren’t rare, as readers of this blog know.

A new report based on interviews with 65 health-care organizations has some stats on those breaches. The biggie: $6 billion. That’s the annual economic burden that stems from data breaches at U.S. hospitals, according to the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information-management research firm.
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The study was sponsored by ID Experts, which sells services to protect against and respond to data breaches.
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Some other findings:
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A full 60% of the organizations included in the study had more than two data breaches over the previous two years, at a cost of $2 million per organization.
' m( o1 A& X1 P% E( j' a/ m  oThe average breach involved 1,769 lost or stolen records.
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Senior personnel at the organizations surveyed felt unprepared to prevent or quickly detect breaches. Some 58% of the organizations “have little or no confidence” in the ability of their organization to detect all patient data loss or theft.
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: F! p/ o6 ]* T: _$ ePatients were the first to detect data breaches, report 41% of the organizations.
  h) i3 X- h! k7 d9 B6 N$ o' iMost of the respondents have either put in place an electronic medical records system or are in the process of doing so. And 74% of those with an EHR system say it has made data more secure. Another 12% said the system made no difference in security, 10% say it made data less secure and 4% were unsure.
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