Study Blames Digital Health Data Breaches on Lack of Funding, Support

Posted on March 5, 2012 at 1:52 pm

By Chris Strohm WASHINGTON — Insufficient funding and lack of executive support are mainly responsible for security breaches involving patients’ electronic health records, a study found. Executives at health-care companies and providers must improve cost assessments to include payments from class-action lawsuits, said the report released Monday by the nonprofit American National Standards Institute. Its members […]