IT Security at St. Luke’s: An Assumption of Compromise

It would be hard to argue that 2014 wasn’t been a year of healthcare data breaches. In advance of the iHT2 San Diego Health IT Summit later this month, one security expert dives into how his health system spent the year breach free.

It would be hard to argue that 2014 wasn’t been a year of healthcare data breaches. According to an Identity Theft Resource report, of the 761 reported data breaches, 322 of them (42.3 percent) came from the healthcare industry. The total number of records exposed totaled more than 83 million, with approximately 8.25 million coming from healthcare, approximately 9.9 percent of the total records breached, the report found.