A new 28-page report from the Brookings Institute has found that 23% of all data breaches occur in healthcare, and that more than 155 million Americans have been affected by 1,500 breaches over the last 6 years. The per-record cost of a data breach in healthcare is $363, higher than in any other industry.
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The AAMI 2016 educational lineup revolves around six core themes that address the essential skills, duties, and challenges of the field: future trends, management of technology and people, patient safety, imaging, cross-departmental collaboration, and professional development.
Read MoreSt Joseph Health, a healthcare system based in Irvine, Calif, has reached a $7.5 million settlement agreement in a class action lawsuit involving nearly 32,000 patients whose health data was inadvertently released online. The leaked data included patient diagnoses, active medication lists, lab results, medication allergies, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, and smoking status.
Read MoreThe CE-IT Community, a joint effort of AAMI, ACCE, and HIMSS, will hold the first installment of its 2016 schedule of virtual town halls with a two-part series on cybersecurity. The free event will take place March 23 and 24 from 1 to 2 pm EST each day.
Read MoreHollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has paid the equivalent of nearly $17,000 to hackers to restore function to its computer network after a malware attack disabled key systems on February 5, 2016.
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