Healthcare security breaches have been on the rise in recent years. In 2016 alone, more than 27 million patient records were compromised as part of 450 data security breach incidents. And 2017 isn’t looking much better, with several large breaches already logged with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). In this guest post, Chris Byers, CEO of a company that offers an online form and data-collection platform, offers five steps to take in the event of a data security breach.
Data security breaches can be costly – especially if they involve HIPAA violations. Earlier this year, Anthem reached a $115 million settlement for a data breach impacting 78.8 million records – a new record.
