History of Health Care Data Breaches Graphic

While this blog is named EMR and HIPAA, it seems that people will only read about HIPAA when we talk about HIPAA data breaches. It’s like the rubber necking that occurs when there’s an accident on the roads. We just can’t resist not looking. The same is true when it comes to HIPAA data breaches. Everyone has to look when they happen.

The people at DataMotionHealth have put together an infographic (see below) on the history health care data breaches (many of which we’ve written about) that highlights some of the major health care data breaches that have occurred over the years. The charts shows the number of size of the data breaches accelerating. That has many people concerned, but I still argue that we might just be better able to know when a data breach occurs today than we were before. Of course, we’ve talked before that technology does make it much easier to breach a large number of records. Where do you see HIPAA breaches heading?

History of Health Care Data Breaches

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

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