EHR Adoption and Breach of Confidentiality Rising Together

Confidential information is not safe:

...just as the country’s physicians are shifting to digital records in large numbers, so, too, is the amount of confidential medical data being breached, according to a second story by Goedert.

Some experts, in fact, say medical data is no safer now than a year ago, Goedert writes. And a recent data breach at Sutter Health Foundation in California put at risk the medical data of 4 million patients.

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