The healthcare industry is highly vulnerable to data breaches, with over half of such incidents occurring in this sector in the United States. Leveraging threat and coping appraisal frameworks from the established theory, we explore how patients respond to a data breach. This study focuses on ...
Data Breach Notification is the voluntary and/or mandatory admission of a company that certain pieces of critical information have been compromised in a breach.
The huge number of data breach reports clearly shows the data security and privacy deficiencies, which can be addressed using blockchain technology (HHS Proposes, 2019). As a matter of fact, implementing a score EHR access control method highly depends on supporting identification, authentication, ...
A combination of technical and organizational measures can be employed to tackle these issues, including data encryption, access control, and data breach prevention and response planning42. Beyond technical measures, healthcare providers must comply with legal requirements such as the Health Insurance ...
In fact, attackers can use data mining methods and procedures to find out sensitive data and release it to the public and thus data breach happens. Whereas implementing security measures remains a complex process, the stakes are continually raised as the ways to defeat security controls become ...
Cybercriminals claim to have leaked 480 gigabytes of data from one of the attacks. Article Health System Pays Feds $600K to Settle HIPAA Breach Case Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • April 23, 2025 A regional healthcare network with three California hospitals serving Los Angeles and Orange ...
Data Breach Risks:Storing large amounts of sensitive data, coupled with the imperative of accessibility, exposes healthcare organizations to the constant threat of data breaches. Fragmented Security Infrastructure: Relying on multiple security products creates complexity in identifying and mitigating potential...
Complicating matters, the healthcare industry continues to be one of the most susceptible to publicly disclosed data breaches. In fact, attackers can use data mining methods and procedures to find out sensitive data and release it to the public and thus data breach happens. Whereas implementing ...
Article Google Scholar Alkinoon M, Choi SJ, Mohaisen D (2021) Measuring healthcare data breaches. In: International Conference on Information Security Applications. Springer, pp 265–277 Yu E (2018) Singapore suffers ’most serious’ data breach, affecting 1.5 m healthcare patients including prim...
Each breach of data security can cost healthcare entities millions of dollars for such expenses as notifying customers and paying legal fees and regulatory fines. In one case, HHS fined a healthcare entity $5.3 million when an employee left a laptop containing patient data on a train. Such ...