by
Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | June 20, 2018
Data breeches are an increasing issue for healthcare providers.
Nearly
1.13 million patient records were breached in the first quarter of 2018. As a recent report by the Protenus Breach Barometer revealed in May, nearly 1.13 million patient records were breached between January and March 2018.
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Using the AI-powered Protenus platform, researchers determined that there was an average of at least one data breach daily during the time period – with many committed by healthcare employees.
“Healthcare organizations have been doing their best to utilize existing tools to detect threats to patient data, but due to limited resources and the use of primitive legacy technology, only a small amount of breaches are actually detected,” Robert Lord, co-founder and president of Protenus, told HCB News. “On any given day, there are millions of accesses to patient data within a single hospital's EHR. Healthcare organizations simply don't have the resources to review all those accesses.”
Technology using artificial intelligence can alert hospitals when there is a potential breach, and let healthcare organizations move from a reactive to proactive security posture. “This is a critical step in getting ahead of the data breaches that are continuing to plague the healthcare industry," he stressed.
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