How to Tell if Your Practice Has Been Hacked
The biggest crisis facing your healthcare practice is the theft or hacking of your valuable healthcare records. Such incidents can have disastrous consequences, hindering your ability to provide care and jeopardizing your patients’ well-being. Stolen medical information can lead to financial ruin for your practice, patient errors, and misuse of their data for illegal activities. The cost of recovering stolen data can reach $13,500 per victim, while healthcare organizations faced an average breach cost of $9.23 million in 2021. Patients may suffer denied care, canceled policies, damaged credit scores, and even personal hardships such as false accusations or unemployment. It’s crucial to understand that data breaches can occur in practices of all sizes, and cyber criminals highly seek healthcare data. Protecting your practice’s data is vital to avoid a security breach’s detrimental financial, reputational, and legal implications.
How to Tell if Your Practice Has Been Hacked (Baum, Medical Economics, 5/30).
