Temporal trends and characteristics of reportable health data breaches, 2010-2017
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Protections for private patient data and mandatory public reporting of breaches of data confidentiality were established by the 1999 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.Between 2010 and 2013, data breaches involving at least 29.1 million patient records were reported.The ongoing transition to electronic health records may increase such breaches.1,2 We used public data to examine the nature and extent of breaches from 2010 through 2017.
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Data safety and security will soon become as essential as wall oxygen in operating rooms.
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- Authors
- McCoy, T. H., & Perlis, R. H.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- McCoy, Thomas H.
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2018-09-25
- Volume
- 320
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1282
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- PMC
- PMC6233611
- OpenAlex
- W2893940987
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 9.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- JAMA (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH106577)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Thoreau and American Literature
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information and Cyber Security
- Keywords
- healthcare data breaches, patient data confidentiality, HIPAA, HITECH Act, electronic health records, temporal trends, health information privacy
- MeSH terms
- Confidentiality, Health Personnel, Humans, Insurance, Health, Medical Informatics, United States, Computer Security, Mandatory Reporting, Electronic Health Records
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