More than hackers trying to breach your personal data, hospitals, doctors’ offices and even insurance companies could be leaking out your identity, new research shows.
For the study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the team reviewed nearly 1,150 cases between October 2009 and December 2017 that affected more than 164 million patients in the US.
While tight software and hardware security can protect from theft and hackers, following procedures such as transitioning from paper to digital medical records, safe storage, moving to non-mobile policies for patient-protected information and implementing encryption can help mitigate this crime, the researchers suggested.
