If you are like me, I love to review the current stats of healthcare data breaches to look at trending or see if there is an area that is more prone to data breaches than others. I thought I would share some new analysis of data breaches! This information is based on healthcare data breaches where greater than 500 individuals were impacted.
Some major highlights from the statistics:
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A total of 1,293 Data Breaches have been reported since September 2009 -
Paper is still the #1 location (media type) of data breaches - 23% of total breaches involving greater than 500 individuals -
Theft and Loss make up 59% of types of data breaches -
Data hacking only makes up 10% of all data breaches where greater than 500 individuals were impacted -
Business Associates are responsible for 22% of data breaches greater than 500 individuals -
A total of 143,495,899 individuals have been impacted by data breaches greater than 500 individuals -
Data breaches involving business associates have impacted 26,399,466 individuals -
The largest data breach occurred in 2015, Anthem Data Breach, impacting 78,800,000 individuals
If you don't have a good process in place for data breaches, now is the time to get one established! It is better to be prepared to report a data breach than struggle when one occurs! Breach notification is one of the major focuses of Phase 2 HIPAA audits.
Danika
The data for this analysis is from the HHS Data Breach Portal: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf