by
Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | July 25, 2018
This latest ClearDATA-Google move comes during a period in which healthcare organizations find themselves increasingly under attack from hackers.
This was highlighted by a recent
May Protenus Breach Barometer report that nearly 1.13 million patient records were hacked between January and March 2018.
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That breaks down to an average of at least one data breach each day out of 110 disclosed during the quarter.
“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.”
The single largest breach took place at a healthcare organization in Oklahoma, initiated by an unauthorized third-party that gained access to the health system’s network of stored billing information of 279,856 patients.
More than 5.5 million patient records were breached in 2017, according to another report by Protenus. The number of records breached in 2016 was five times greater, however, totaling 27,314,647. This was largely due to numerous large-scale hacking incidents that occurred in the latter part of that year.
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