Commenting on reports that healthcare and IT experts warned the US Congress earlier this month about security concerns surrounding the increasing use of EHRs (electronic health records), Imperva says that media reports and research points to a lack of understanding within healthcare organisations as to why EHRs need protecting.
According to Rob Rachwald, director of security with the data security specialist, recent research from PricewaterhouseCoopers found that 64 per cent of staff working with EHR data were unaware of whether – or not – their firm had suffered a data breach within the last two years (http://bit.ly/sS0NmX).
“Perhaps worse, only 58 per cent of healthcare providers and 41 per cent of health insurers reported including appropriate EHR usage as a component of their staff privacy training,” he said.
- Published: 18 November 2011
- Written by NStinchcombe