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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Protecting Patient Privacy - How important it is?

 

 Protecting Patient Privacy

United States: $12 billion in total costs for US hospitals from data breaches, per hospital $2 billion.

Protecting Patient Privacy- hipaa
HIPAA Compliance

Top 3 causes of a data breach
  • Employee action
  • Lost or stolen computing devices
  • Third-party error
70% of Hospitals say protecting patient data is not a priority.
1769 records per average breach are lost or stolen.
60% of hospitals suffered at least 2 breaches.
38% of hospitals informed nobody of the breach.
41% of breaches were discovered by the patient complaint.

Canada: 81% of medical professionals aware of legal obligations concerning patient information.
21% have never conducted a medical security audit.

55% do not regularly train staff on proper security protocols.
55% do not utilize document destruction services.

29% lack an employee dedicated to documenting security management.

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