Data Breaches in Healthcare Security Systems

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the causes and impacts of healthcare data breaches, highlighting the need for improved security standards beyond current regulations like HIPAA to better protect patient privacy.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of healthcare data breaches, their causes, impacts, and suggests enhancements to existing security standards such as HIPAA.

Findings

Data breaches are increasing despite security standards.

Breaches compromise patient privacy significantly.

Recommendations for improving healthcare data security.

Abstract

Providing security to Health Information is considered to be the topmost priority when compared to any other field. After the digitalization of the patient's records in the medical field, the healthcare/medical field has become a victim of several internal and external cyberattacks. Data breaches in the healthcare industry have been increasing rapidly. Despite having security standards such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), data breaches still happen on a daily basis. All various types of data breaches have the same harmful impact on healthcare data, especially on patients' privacy. The main objective of this paper is to analyze why healthcare data breaches occur and what is the impact of these breaches. The paper also presents the possible improvements that can be made in the current standards, such as HIPAA, to increase security in the healthcare field.