The number of people affected by health care data breaches drastically dropped from 2011 to 2012. Data breaches impacted 2.5 million people in 2012, a precipitous fall from 2011, Gartner Research Vice President Jack Santos said. Rules and fines have provided the industry with a wake-up call, and it has cleaned up its security act, he said. The risk of data breaches have increased as medical information over the last 18 to 24 months has migrated en masse from paper to electronic form.”]
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