Cybersecurity in Healthcare: How to Prevent Cybercrime

Cybersecurity is a growing area of risk in healthcare, and organizations are grappling with the vulnerabilities and the ways patient data can be used against patients and organizations. From identity theft to healthcare fraud, waste and abuse, cybercriminals breached 642 accounts of 500 or more patient profiles in 2020. That's a rate of more than 1.76 per day, reports HIPAA Journal, adding up to 29 million healthcare records breached last year. Security breaches cost healthcare companies $6 trillion dollars by the end of 2020. According to Health IT Security, three security data breaches in 2020 alone affected almost 2,000,000 records, opening opportunities for identity theft and online fraud.