S-health is the obvious patient priority
It’s not M-health or E-health but very S-ecure health that is needed!!
Healthcare and government are a higher target than the retail sector for most targetted for data breaches, according to Gemalto. security firm
1,673 data breaches meant that 707 million data records were compromised worldwide during 2015, according to Gemalto’s latest Breach Level Index report.
Not all breaches are equally serious and the number of records disclosed is only one metric. Gemalto’s study attempts to recognise this by assigning a severity score to each breach based on factors including the type of data and the number of records compromised, the source of the breach, and whether or not the data was encrypted. Their methodology tries to separate nuisance from high impact data breaches.
Over 3.6 billion data records have been exposed since 2013. . …more