A new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that a majority of health enterprises do not have the security in place, nor the policies, to properly protect patient data and privacy. The findings are from a U.S.-based PwC Health Research Institute survey of 600 executives from hospitals, physician organizations, health insurers and pharmaceutical and life sciences companies. In fact, theft of records accounted for 66 percent of reported health data breaches during the previous two years. The industry is exposing the data to the world and making more complex apps, and they’re getting hacked as a result.”]
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