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Data Breach Analysis 2009-2012 – HITECH Experience Reviewed by HITRUST

David Harlow
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In the first three years that the HITECH data breach notification rules have been in effect (September 2009 – September 2012), almost 500 breaches affecting more than 500 individuals have been reported.  As of this spring, over 57,000 data breaches affecting fewer than 500 individuals have been reported.

In the first three years that the HITECH data breach notification rules have been in effect (September 2009 – September 2012), almost 500 breaches affecting more than 500 individuals have been reported.  As of this spring, over 57,000 data breaches affecting fewer than 500 individuals have been reported.

HITRUST Analysis of U.S. Healthcare Breach Data (infographic) (report)
Courtesy of HITRUST (Health IT Trust Alliance)

The key takeaways:

  • Most data breaches are accounted for by theft or loss (2/3 of breaches, over 4/5 of breached records); the balance are accounted for by unauthorized access or disclosure, incorrect mailing, hacking and improper disposal 
  • Hacks are on the rise, and given the likely underreporting of all breaches and the ease with which theft and loss of devices and records are detected, chances are that security improvement efforts are not being targeted appropriately
  • The weak link for most data breaches are laptops, paper records and mobile media (3/4 of breaches, 2/3 of records); the balance are from desktop computers, network servers and system applications
  • The trend in number of data breaches over time is encouraging, but there have been upticks in late 2011 and early 2012 
  • Hospitals, health plans and business associates are getting better at securing their data over time; physician practices are getting a little worse, particularly in smaller practice which, since they are often linked to community hospital EHRs, expose the hospitals as well
  • Government sector breaches account for a large percentage of the whole (check out the OIG report on CMS data breaches under HITECH for a glimpse of one sliver of this problem)

The full report is worth reading.  Also: see more from HealthBlawg on HIPAA, HITECH and data breaches.

David Harlow
The Harlow Group LLC
Health Care Law and Consulting
 

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DAVID HARLOW is Principal of The Harlow Group LLC, a health care law and consulting firm based in the Hub of the Universe, Boston, MA. His thirty years’ experience in the public and private sectors affords him a unique perspective on legal, policy and business issues facing the health care community. David is adept at assisting clients in developing new paradigms for their business organizations, relationships and processes so as to maximize the realization of organizational goals in a highly regulated environment, in realms ranging from health data privacy and security to digital health strategy to physician-hospital relationships to the avoidance of fraud and abuse. He's been called "an expert on HIPAA and other health-related law issues [who] knows more than virtually anyone on those topics.” (Forbes.com.) His award-winning blog, HealthBlawg, is highly regarded in both the legal and health policy blogging worlds. David is a charter member of the external Advisory Board of the Mayo Clinic Social Media Network and has served as the Public Policy Chair of the Society for Participatory Medicine, on the Health Law Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association and on the Advisory Board of FierceHealthIT. He speaks regularly before health care and legal industry groups on business, policy and legal matters. You should follow him on Twitter.

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