Digitized Patient Records Increase Risk of Data Breaches
A stolen laptop began a nightmare that cost a small, non-profit health consultancy nearly $300,000 in legal, private investigation, credit monitoring, and media consultancy fees. Not to mention 600 hours dealing with the fallout and the intangible cost of repairing the reputational damage that followed.
As reported in N.Y. Times:
Mr. Tripathi’s nonprofit, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative in Waltham, Mass., works with doctors and hospitals to help digitize their patient records. His employee’s stolen laptop contained unencrypted records for some 13,687 patients — each record containing some combination of a patient’s name, social security number, birth date, contact information and insurance information — an identity theft gold mine.
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