Breached Patient Records Tripled in 2018 vs 2017 as Health Data Security Challenges Worsen

BALTIMORE, Feb. 12, 2019 PRNewswire -- In 2018, 15,085,302 patient records were breached, according to new data released today in the Protenus Breach Barometer. Published by Protenus, an AI-powered healthcare compliance analytics platform that protects patient data for the nation's leading health systems, the Breach Barometer is the industry's definitive source for health data breach reporting. There was a slight increase in the number of breaches, from 477 in 2017 compared to 503 in 2018. Alarmingly, the number of affected...