Medical data breach

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Medical data, including patients' identity information, health status, disease diagnosis and treatment, and biogenetic information, not only involve patients' privacy but also have a special sensitivity and important value, which may bring physical and mental distress and property loss to patients and even negatively affect social stability and national security once leaked. However, the development and application of medical AI must rely on a large amount of medical data for algorithm training, and the larger and more diverse the amount of data, the more accurate the results of its analysis and prediction will be. However, the application of big data technologies such as data collection, analysis and processing, cloud storage, and information sharing has increased the risk of data leakage. In the United States, the rate of such breaches has increased over time, with 176 million records breached by the end of 2017. [1] [2] There have been 245 data breaches of 10,000 or more records, 68 breaches of the healthcare data of 100,000 or more individuals, 25 breaches that affected more than half a million individuals, and 10 breaches of the personal and protected health information of more than 1 million individuals.

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Black market for health data

In February 2015 an NPR report claimed that organized crime networks had ways of selling health data in the black market. [1]

In 2015 a Beazley employee estimated that medical records could sell on the black market for US$40-50. [2]

Crime is the primary cause of medical data breaches. [3]

How data is lost

Theft, data loss, hacking, and unauthorized account access are ways in which medical data breaches happen. [4] Among reported breaches of medical information in the United States networked information systems accounted for the largest number of records breached. [5] There are many data breaches happening in the US health care system, among business associates of the health care providers that continuously gain access to patients' data. [6]

List of data breaches

Regulation

In the United States, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act require companies to report data breaches to affected individuals and the federal government. [13]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Abelson, Reed; Goldstein, Matthew (5 February 2015). "Anthem Hacking Points to Security Vulnerability of Health Care Industry". The New York Times . New York. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  3. Richards, Robbie (16 November 2015). "Healthcare data breaches present a $6 billion threat". royaljay.com. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  4. Millman, Jason (19 August 2014). "Health care data breaches have hit 30M patients and counting". The Washington Post . Washington DC: WPC. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  5. McCoy, Thomas H.; Perlis, Roy H. (September 25, 2018). "Temporal Trends and Characteristics of Reportable Health Data Breaches, 2010-2017". JAMA. 320 (12): 1282–1284. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.9222. ISSN   1538-3598. PMC   6233611 . PMID   30264106.
  6. YARAGHI, NIAM; GOPAL, RAM D. (March 2018). "The Role of HIPAA Omnibus Rules in Reducing the Frequency of Medical Data Breaches: Insights From an Empirical Study". The Milbank Quarterly. 96 (1): 144–166. doi:10.1111/1468-0009.12314. ISSN   0887-378X. PMC   5835681 . PMID   29504206.
  7. "Script provider MediSecure is at centre of 'large-scale ransomware' data breach, ABC can confirm". ABC News. 2024-05-16. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  8. McSweeney, David Swan, Jessica (2024-05-16). "Police investigate large-scale healthcare data breach". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2024-05-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. Noonan, Laura; Shotter, James (19 May 2021). "Irish patients' data stolen by hackers appears online". Financial Times. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  10. "CMS Reports Data Breach in ACA Agent and Broker Portal". www.ajmc.com. 22 October 2018.
  11. Koczkodaj, Waldemar W.; Mazurek, Mirosław; Strzałka, Dominik; Wolny-Dominiak, Alicja; Woodbury-Smith, Marc (2018). "Electronic Health Record Breaches as Social Indicators". Social Indicators Research. 141 (2): 861–871. doi:10.1007/s11205-018-1837-z. S2CID   148750993.
  12. "Columbia Medical Center, Hospital To Pay $4.8M Fine for Data Breach". iHealthBeat. California HealthCare Foundation. 8 May 2014. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  13. Office of Civil Rights (26 July 2013). "Breach Notification Rule". U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

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