With the drastic increase in Cyber Crimes, the healthcare industry is a potential target for data hungry hackers.
Patient safety may not directly relate to data security , but an individual's personal health information includes everything from their address, private medical records to credit card information.
Approximately 29.3 million patients health records have been compromised in a HIPPA data breach which has said to have started as early as 2009, according to healthcare IT security firm Redspin.
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