Over the last three years, the number of breaches, lost medical records, and settlements of fines is staggering. During this span, nearly 140 million medical records were involved in a privacy breach. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR )1 issued 22 resolution agreements, requiring monetary settlements approaching $36 million. Despite the attention and lessons learned, some very troubling themes persist. Although warnings about increasing malware attacks, the introduction of crypto-ransomware in 2016, and predictions that healthcare records will continue ...
© Eric C. Thompson 2017
Eric C. Thompson, Building a HIPAA-Compliant Cybersecurity Program, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3060-2_1
1. Not If, but When
Eric C. Thompson1
(1)Lisle, Illinois, USA
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