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Cybersecurity for eHealth
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Cybersecurity for eHealth

by Emmanuel C. Ogu
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
134 pages
3h 24m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Cybersecurity for eHealth

5 Securing eHealth Systems and Infrastructures

DOI: 10.1201/9781003254416-5

Introduction

According to the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020 1 published by IBM, data breaches cost the global healthcare industry alone an average of USD 7.13 million annually, with up to 90% of healthcare organizations that featured in a 2016 survey2 by Ponemon Institute having experienced a data breach in the preceding two years, and each organization losing an average of USD 3.7 million of revenue per data breach. The reputational impact of a healthcare cybersecurity incident has also been discovered to last for between ten months to two years3.

So, in considering together the loss of revenue, the loss of customer/client trust, the diminishing of Industry reputation, ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781000530490