Brookings Institution recommends earlier HIPAA audits, better communication, and cyber insurance as tools for improved healthcare data breach prevention.
Using better communication, implementing a universal HIPAA audit certification system, and embracing cyber insurance are merely some of the recommendations for better healthcare data breach prevention recently put forth by the Brookings Institution.
Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation Fellow Niam Yaraghia explained some of the underlying factors in healthcare data breaches, as well as present obstacles organizations are facing.
Yaraghia and fellow researchers performed 22 in-depth interviews with “key personnel at a variety of health care providers, health insurance companies, and their business associates,” in accordance to the report.
The healthcare industry is more vulnerable to privacy breaches because it holds more valuable data for hackers, the paper explained, and that information is being stored in large volumes for a long time. Moreover, healthcare embraced information technology too late and too fast, and did not have powerful financial incentives at first to stop privacy breaches.
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