Large “large” (more than 500 records) breaches jumped 21.5 percent from 2011 to 2012. Total number of individual records compromised dropped 77 percent, from 10.6 million to 2.4 million. The biggest change is that the latest update of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Omnibus Rule. Security experts offer mixed opinions on how much those recommendations and the new rule will reduce breaches of PHI. “There is only modest” improvement to come, one analyst says.”]
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