Intro In just the first four months of 2019, 103 breaches were reported to the Office for Civil Rights. In total these breaches affected 3,602,858 individuals. Even with patient privacy being a concern for many health providers the industry is falling short in protecting sensitive data. Across the US, companies are reporting incidents of theft, unauthorized access, and hacking.
Breaches over time The Office for Civil Rights publishes a dataset of reported breaches going back as far as 2009.