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Healthcare's Biggest Cyber Challenge: Human Error
A Recent Study Shows That Most Breaches Are Caused By Employees
By John Davidson - October 20, 2017
Breaches of Protected Health Information (PHI) have been in the news a lot lately. In a recent report by Beazley (a specialty risk insurance company), it shows that 41% of data breaches are the restult of unintended disclosure (human error).Â
Human Error is almost twice the level of the second highest cause of loss, which is from a 'hack or malware' (19%).Â
The third highest cause of loss is when employees snoop in patients files without permission or a work reason (15%), which again show the need for increased training and contols.Â
According to the study the average settlements for PHI breaches increased to $1.8M in 2016-17, compared to $1M in 2014-15.Â
For more information, check out the Beazely Study:Â
https://www.beazley.com/documents/TMB/Insights/201710-beazley-breach-insight-healthcare.pdfÂ
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