The Sick State of Healthcare Data Breaches Infographic

One of the topics discussed at HIMSS 2016 last week is the number of healthcare data breaches that have happened recently. Most people predicted that it was likely to get worse. I agree with them. It’s amazing how many healthcare organizations are playing the “ignorance is bliss” card when it comes to these breaches.

This infographic from LightCyber should put a little perspective on the quantity and impact of all these health care data breaches. If I were the leader of a healthcare organization, I’d be making this one of my top priorities.

The Sick State of Healthcare Data Breaches Infographic

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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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