19 million patient health records were breached last year, a 97-percent increase from 2010. The most breaches occurred in the most populous states, like California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois. The Boyd Company has estimated that spending on health data security will hit $40 billion this year and climb to $70 billion by 2015. Federal regulations so far don’t even require PHI to be encrypted when it is on transportable devices, says Redspin CEO Daniel W. Berger. He says security in health care is viewed more as a project than a process.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2131401/report–phi-security-is-mia.html