Hospitals have ‘holy grail of personal data,’ yet their spending lags on digital security – Chicago Tribune

In the past two years, 27 Illinois health care providers and companies have reported data breaches involving at least 500 patients. That includes a recent incident at Rush that may have exposed the information of 45,000 patients.

Yet health care providers, in general, tend to spend less on data security than companies in other industries. The shortfall is all the more glaring considering the sensitivity of the data, some experts say.

via Hospitals have ‘holy grail of personal data,’ yet their spending lags on digital security – Chicago Tribune.