Preventing Employee Error from Causing a HIPAA Data Breach

The healthcare industry experiences the most data breaches of any industry and has the highest proportion of insider sources.¹ Healthcare data breaches are also the costliest, with an average cost of $380 per record — 69% greater than the national average.² The good news is that, because more than half of all cyber security incidents in healthcare involve the inadvertent actions of employees,¹ there is an opportunity for practices to greatly reduce their risk of attack with employee training and awareness that builds a pervasive “culture of security.”