Most cybersecurity experts predict that data security threats against the healthcare industry will only continue to increase and evolve in 2017 as widespread malicious and criminal hacking poses an increased risk to protected health information (PHI) and healthcare organizations’ information systems.
According to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) breach portal, also referred to as the “wall of shame,” the number of hacking/IT incidents at healthcare providers skyrocketed last year. In 2014, there were 18 reported data breach incidents classified as “hacking/IT incidents” at healthcare provider organizations, as reported to HHS.
