https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-hospital-data-breaches-20190307-story.html
By Lisa Schencker
Chicago Tribune
March 8, 2019
When most people go to the hospital, data security is the last thing on their
minds. They’re in pain, anxious and unsure. They want to be treated and return
to their lives.
Yet sometimes patients still have cause to worry months after they leave the
hospital. They’re discovering that data they gave to health systems -- Social
Security numbers, birth dates, health insurance information, medical
information and credit card numbers -- have been compromised in breaches.
In the past two years, 27 Illinois health care providers and companies have
reported data breaches involving at least 500 patients. That includes a recent
incident at Rush that may have exposed the information of 45,000 patients.
Yet health care providers, in general, tend to spend less on data security than
companies in other industries. The shortfall is all the more glaring
considering the sensitivity of the data, some experts say.
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