A new Brookings Institution study finds that healthcare data breaches are increasing, despite growing public awareness, increased security assurances and rising government fines. The study revealed that 23 percent of all data breaches occur in healthcare and have impacted 155 million Americans in almost 1,500 breaches in the past six years. The total number of breach victims tripled in the last two years alone. The per-record cost for healthcare data breaches is $363, the highest of any industry.
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