HIPAA Data Breaches Climb 138 Percent

HIPAA Data Breaches Climb 138 Percent

When talking HIPAA privacy and security, the numbers do most of the talking. Take 29.3 million, for instance, the number of patient health records compromised in a HIPAA data breach since 2009, or 138 percent, the percent jump in the number of health records breached just from 2012.