Healthcare Data Security: End-to-End Network Encryption for Secure Healthcare
by Windstream
Despite billions of dollars spent on data security in the healthcare industry, cyber attacks and data breaches continue at epidemic levels. Nearly 90 percent of healthcare providers have been hit by data breaches in the last two years, according to a 2016 Ponemon Institute study. Healthcare CIOs have realized it’s no longer a matter of if you will be attacked, it’s when you will be attacked. The cost of these data breaches is also rising, to nearly $4.1 million per incident.1 In addition, patients are now beginning to include cyber security as a factor when choosing their healthcare providers. These potential business impacts and the continuing onslaught of attacks is an increasingly frequent topic in covered entity and business associate board-level discussions.
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