Research: warnings to healthcare practitioners prevent repeat PHI breaches
Date postedApril 20, 2022
New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that email warnings sent to healthcare practitioners after unauthorized access to protected health information prevented a recurrence of the breach in 95% of cases. According to reports by Verizon, "insider security threats are a bigger risk than hacking in healthcare." In the trial, only 4% of employees who received the warning email repeated the unauthorized access, whereas 40% of employees who did not receive the warning repeated the offense.