“A small physician practice is at a disadvantage because they’re heavily relying on third parties to support them,” says Chris Logan, MBA, CISSP, senior healthcare strategist at software provider VMware in Palo Alto, California, and former chief information security officer for health system Care New England. So while practices are monitoring their own in-house security methods to avoid jeopardizing patient data, they also face the threat of a cyberattack on one of their business partners, putting that same information at risk. Moreover, 45% of those had suffered more than five breaches within the reporting period. Almost 90% of healthcare organizations experienced a data breach in the previous two years, according to a May 2016 study from research firm Ponemon Institute, which includes both covered entities and business associates (BA). Healthcare data breaches involving protected health information (PHI) are growing increasingly common. The exposed data may have included victims’ names, home addresses, social security numbers, health information and other personal information, according to a notice posted on the vendor’s website.

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A cyberattackaffecting nearly 200 hospitals, clinics and independent practices-exposing an estimated 3.9 million records-occurred in 2015 when systems at NoMoreClipboard, an online patient portal and personal health record provider, were compromised.

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