Healthcare records were digitized to help prevent medical errors such as misdiagnoses and mistakes with medication, but electronic health records (EHR) have made it easier for bad actors to steal patients' highly personal information.
Marti Arvin, Executive Advisor at CynergisTek, offered commentary for this article, which covers CynergisTek’s privacy survey results, and also questions the current state of safeguards healthcare data in general.
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