Within a few weeks’ time, massive health care breaches have been made public at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) and the Utah Department of Health, showing a need for health care organizations to boost their security budgets, according to Judy Hanover, research director at IDC Health Insights.
“There’s been a chronic underinvestment in breach protection and in securing our network and our data,” Hanover told eWEEK.
New requirements under the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act mean health care companies need to go public with breaches and report them to the news media in addition to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said Hanover.
