Thursday, February 10, 2011

Internal Breaches

The article below highlights the continuous internal threat to confidential data.

http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/breach-university-of-iowa-football-players-41885-1.html?ET=healthdatamanagement:e1653:145757a:&st=email&utm_source=editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HDM_Daily_020811

After reading this I wonder why such breaches are more prevalent in healthcare versus financial services. I assume it is due to medical charts, which represent consolidated data, versus relational data, etc.

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