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SAN JOSE, Calif. — October 20, 2009 — LogLogic®, the leader in log and security management solutions, and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, today announced results of a national survey of healthcare IT security professionals that shows patients may be surrendering their privacy as the $2.5 trillion medical industry – prompted by federal stimulus funding– pushes to accelerate the pace of digitizing health information records.

According to the October 2009 Ponemon report, Electronic Health Information at Risk: A Study of IT Practitioners, 80 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed had experienced at least one incident of lost or stolen electronic health information in the past year – four percent had more than five patient data breaches. More than two-thirds of these healthcare organizations had already digitized at least a quarter of their patient records and a third had digitized more than half.

Check out this article talking about health care and IT security, a topic of conversation that has been under much discussion here in the UK anyway. The challenges of not only converting existing data to digital media, but to ensuring that access to that data is only viewable by approved persons or organizations is equally a problem, not to mention the process/security issues around enabling access where necessary but not exposing the organization or the personal data to necessary risk. An interesting article, do check it out, I’m off to read up more and check out the reports you can view about the issue.

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