Why HIPAA Compliance Is Important
Healthcare organizations have increasingly become a target for cyber attacks. Numerous malicious, large scale health data breaches have taken place this year such as the Anthem data breach, which affected nearly 80 million individuals.[1]More recently, UCLA Health suffered a massive data breach in May 2015, where hackers accessed the medical files of more than 4.5 million patients, according to a UCLA Health notice published in July.[2]According to a 2015 Harris Poll commissioned by Vormetric Data Security, 26 percent of healthcare IT decision makers are protecting data because of a data breach in the past.[3] The report also stated that 48 percent of U.S. healthcare organizations reported either encountering a data breach or failing a compliance audit in the last year.