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Healthcare data management: resolving consent, compliance, and privacy issues

Pharmaceutical Technology

Breaches of HIPAA in the US can result in fines of up to $50,000. They'll have their data segregated over the many healthcare providers, different hospitals, and doctors' offices. With the rush to ensure GDPR compliance in 2018, Jackson says that many companies purchased off-the-shelf software to meet requirements.

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STAT+: Change Healthcare cyberattack drives 2024 into another record year for health data breaches

STAT

Since 2018, HHS has reported, it has seen a 264% increase in large ransomware breaches, and seven health systems have been fined up to $950,000 for failing to protect patients’ protected health information from ransomware attacks. “We’re going to see these numbers continue to go up as we have more and more health I.T.

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