Small Medical Offices Biggest Risk to Patient Data Security, Privacy

Small physician practices, much like their small commercial business counterparts, have been the primary source of health care related data breaches, according to an analysis of breaches from 2009 to October 2012 released today by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST).These smaller medical offices, usually well under 100 employees, lack the IT or information security resources to adequately deal with a wide array of cybercriminals eyeing electronic health records and personal information that has considerable value in the black market.Since the passing of the HITECH act in 2009 and the mandatory notification of breaches of health care

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    RT @dataprivacyrisk: Small Medical Offices Biggest Risk to Patient Data Security, Privacy http://t.co/2eyjT1Qy

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    Small physician practices, like their small businesses counterparts, are the primary source of healthcare data breaches http://t.co/cfi3CLO3



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