Health Care Data Breaches- Hackers or Human Errors?

Since 2009, health care data breach statistics are:

• 8%  involve hacking
• 40.9 million individuals’ records have been exposed
  • Of the individual records, 19%, were blamed on hackers
    • This includes a hack, allegedly by Chinese hackers ,to the health care data at Community Health System in Franklin, TN, resulting in stolen personally identifiable information on 4.5 million individuals.

President Obama’s federal data breach proposal would pre-empt state law, but it EXEMPTS health care and banking, which each have their own data breach standards. Modern Healthcare