Information Security Risks for Health-Care Providers to Watch

This article, from Bloomberg BNA’s Health Care Program Compliance Guide, discusses a variety of information security risks that hospitals and other health-care providers and business associates can expect to face in 2014. One recent report found that criminal attacks on health-care data increased by 100 percent over the last 4 years. Another report found that 199 breaches exposed over 7 million patient records—a significant increase over 2012.

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