Posted on 08/27/2015 6:31:37 PM PDT by markomalley
Eighty-one percent of healthcare executives say their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet or other kind of cyberattack during the past two years, according to a survey by KPMG.
The KPMG report also states that only half of those executives feel that they are adequately prepared to prevent future attacks. The attacks place sensitive patient data at risk of exposure, KPMG said.
The 2015 KPMG Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey polled 223 CIOs, CTOs, chief security officers and chief compliance officers at healthcare providers and health plans.
Sixty-six percent of the IT executives at healthcare plans who were surveyed said they were prepared to fend off attacks. Based on revenue, larger organizations are better prepared than smaller ones, KPMG said.
Compared with past KPMG polls, the one released Wednesday showed that the number of attacks on healthcare IT systems has increased, with 13% of respondents saying they are targeted by external hack attempts about once a day and another 12% seeing about two or more attacks per week.
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Love it.
Well, I’m not surprised, and this isn’t true just for healthcare. That figure may even be underestimated because there are some companies whose security is so bad they might be compromised and not even know it.
Even with the best security, there are always new vulnerabilities being discovered and someone is going to get hit before the patches come out to protect against them. Also, all networks have human users, a permanent vulnerability for which there is no good patch yet :)
Tricare ping.
Only one way to fix this ... Drain more money from direct patient care to invest in IT.
Every major Federal government entity that has any info on me has been hacked into. IRS/OPM/DoD/ State Dept. The Chinese and Russians own me now.
I personally think it’s our government who is hacking our medical records.
Even the office manager at my Doc’s says she understands when I decline to use their automated system.
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