ORLANDO — A patient’s health record is about 15 to 20 times as valuable as a stolen credit card, suggests Robert Wah, M.D., president-elect of the American Medical Association and global chief medical officer of Computer Sciences Corp. He says health care providers must undertake “industrial-strength methods” to protect health data.
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HIMSS14 Live: Criminal Elements Eyeing Medical Records
Thieves targeting patient records with greater frequency, and hospital leaders must take notice.
February 26, 2014
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