Data Security and the Health Care Industry : A Collision Course

Since New Year’s Day, 90 Million individual health care records have been exposed by data hackers.  

Why is health care data targeted?  The data is highly valuable on the black market.

How are hackers gaining access to health care data? Via portals in electronics such as sonogram machines, conference call machines, fax machines… MD Anderson tests all its electronic equipment for security protcols.

Commentary in Houston Chronicle