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As healthcare data breaches rise, follow these cyber security insiders on Twitter

Cybersecurity is becoming a greater challenge for the healthcare industry, costing the system $6 billion annually. Since medical information contains patient Social Security numbers, addresses and insurance information, hackers seek out the places that store all of this information together: hospitals. Healthcare data breaches accounted for 43 percent of all breaches in 2014. More recently, […]

By on May 28, 2015

Cybersecurity is becoming a greater challenge for the healthcare industry, costing the system $6 billion annually. Since medical information contains patient Social Security numbers, addresses and insurance information, hackers seek out the places that store all of this information together: hospitals.

Healthcare data breaches accounted for 43 percent of all breaches in 2014. More recently, high-profile breaches at CareFirst, Anthem and Premera Blue Cross highlighted the vulnerability of health insurers in addition to hospitals. Industry leaders are trying to figure out ways to strengthen the security systems in order to keep patient information under stronger electronic lock and key.

Here are some healthcare security leaders you may consider following on Twitter:

Colin Konschak (@ColinKonschak) is a managing partner and the CEO of the healthcare consulting firm DIVURGENT.

Frank Baitman (@frankbaitman) is the chief information officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He specializes in business and technology strategies.

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Danika Brinda (@DanikaBrinda) is an assistant professor at The College of St. Scholastica and an HIM professional. She helps healthcare organizations make sense of technology.

David Houlding (@davidhoulding) is the healthcare privacy and security lead at Intel Corporation. His role includes defining strategies, roadmaps, reference architectures, solution incubation, prototypes, pilots, and sales and marketing field support for the Health and Life Sciences sector.
https://twitter.com/davidhoulding/status/598536968515887105

C. Bryan Ivey (@bryan_ivey) is the team lead for the X-Force Threat Analysis Service (XFTAS) team at IBM. He writes the newsletter for XFTAS which includes team written assessments highlighting security related events.
https://twitter.com/bryan_ivey/status/603629379567132672

Daniel J. Solove (@DanielSolove) is a Law Professor at George Washington University Law School. He is an expert in information privacy law and founder of the privacy and security training company Teach Privacy.

Lisa Gallagher (@lgallagherHIMSS) is the vice president of technology solutions at HIMSS

HD Moore (@hdmoore) is the chief research officer at Rapid 7,  an IT security company that performs security assessments to identify vulnerabilities in network, hardware, software, Web and database portions of businesses.
https://twitter.com/hdmoore/status/599634376238829568

Health IT Security (@HealthITsec) is a group of IT security and medical professionals who want to raise awareness and improve security in health organizations. Although we have focused on individuals in this post, we thought it was worth including this group since it is particularly relevant.

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