First half of 2018 sees 18.7M pills and $164M lost due to drug diversion
These numbers compare to 2017, when 20.9 million pills and $301.1 million were lost because of drug diversion, according to an analysis by data analytics company Protenus.
How many patient records were breached in Q2?
The most recent Protenus Breach Barometer, which looked at data from April through June of 2018, found 3,143,642 patient records were exposed in 142 data breaches.
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Ransomware attack on sleep center involves more than 16K patient records
The latest Breach Barometer from Protenus and DataBreaches.net details that the single largest incident in November was a ransomware attack on the Hackensack Sleep and Pulmonary Center in New Jersey. It impacted 16,747 patient records.
Insider error incidents made up majority of breached records in October
According to the latest Protenus Breach Barometer report, there were 37 health data breaches disclosed to HHS or the media in October, impacting 246,246 patient records.
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Insiders were responsible for 23.7 percent of August breaches, but continue to fly under the radar
The latest Breach Barometer from Protenus found there were 33 breach incidents in August. While 54.5 percent of them were due to hacking, 27.3 percent were caused by insiders.
One hospital took 14 years to discover a data breach
Fourteen years is a lengthy amount of time, but that's how long it took Massachusetts-based Tewksbury Hospital to uncover an insider incident. The finding comes from Protenus' latest Breach Barometer.
Protenus broadens use of analytics platform beyond data breaches
Protenus, the company behind monthly Breach Barometers, is expanding its capabilities and will use its analytics platform to shed light on other problems in the world of healthcare.
It took some organizations three years to discover a data breach
Data breaches just keep happening. In May's Protenus Breach Barometer, three reported breach incidents went undetected for more than three years.
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1.5 million patient records breached in March
As Protenus found the number of breached records is on the rise, a JAMA Internal Medicine study claimed the risk of breaches is higher at large facilities and teaching hospitals.
The enemy within: Insiders caused 58 percent of February breaches
A new report from Protenus found that of the 31 data breach incidents in February, 58 percent were attributable to insiders while only 13 percent were due to hacking.
Health data breaches hit 2016 high in November
Just when you think the cybersecurity problem couldn't get any worse in healthcare, along comes a report saying that there were more health data breaches disclosed in November than in any other month in 2016.
To help health systems assess data security needs, Protenus raises $4M Series A
Arthur Ventures led the funding round with participation from LionBird Venture Capital, DreamIt Ventures, Cognosante, TEDCO, and the Baltimore Angels.
Protenus wants to vaccinate patient records from external breaches and nosy healthcare staff
"One of the fundamental things we have learned is that hospitals are tremendously hungry for this information on data breaches and guarding data privacy and [many of them] don't have the tools," said Robert Lord, co-founder of Protenus.