http://healthitsecurity.com/2013/07/31/how-safe-is-minors-patient-data-from-hackers/
By Patrick Ouellette
Health IT Security
July 31, 2013
Handling patient data security among minors is a touchy subject that has
been evaluated more prominently of late with potential EHR software
complications. Minors’ patient data is valuable to would-be hackers even
more so than adults because of the relative unblemished nature of their
information. Michael Bruemmer, Vice President of Experian Data Breach
Resolution, said there are high risks for children when it comes to health
data breaches.
Bruemmer told HealthITSecurity.com that in the case of a minor or young
adult, they’re most attractive for two reasons: 1. Minors have a clean
slate in terms of credit and identity and 2. There’s a greater likelihood
that their information isn’t being monitored or inspected because parents
aren’t necessarily watching their files. And According to an FTC report
from 2011 called “Stolen Futures: A Forum on Child Identity Theft,”
children are 51 times more likely to become victims of identity theft than
adults, with anywhere from 140,000 to 400,000 children affected annually
by this crime.
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