State of IT Healthcare Security More Breaches

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State of IT Healthcare Security More Breaches Only four percent of respondents indicated that they don’t have any concerns about thesecurity of electronic medical information at their organization No Title Approximately 26 percent of organizations reported experiencing a security breach in the last 12 months. No Title That’s slightly up from the 23 percent of […]

Mar 28, 2011
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1State of IT Healthcare Security More Breaches

Only four percent of respondents indicated that they don’t have any concerns about thesecurity of electronic medical information at their organization

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Approximately 26 percent of organizations reported experiencing a security breach in the last 12 months.

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That’s slightly up from the 23 percent of respondents that participated in last year’s HIMSS survey.

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Just 15 percent of organizations said that security systems are a primary IT infrastructure focus for their hospitals.

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Internal breaches were listed as the primary security concern for electronic medical information, listed by 36 percent of respondents.

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Approximately 30 percent of organizations said that compliance with HIPAA security regulations and CMS security audits was their biggest security concern.

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Other big security issues reported by respondents were data leakage (16 percent) and external breaches (11 percent).

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