The Stram Center for Integrative Medicine in New York recently reported a security incident where an employee misused a patient’s payment card information. Although only one patient’s card was directly misused, a subsequent breach report to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights indicates that the incident potentially compromised the

Verizon recently issued its Protected Health Information (PHI) Data Breach Report, which is always an interesting read. Not surprisingly, Verizon’s report concludes that based upon analysis of 1,360 security incidents involving the health care sector, 58 percent of the incidents were caused by insiders and 42 percent were caused by external threats.

Insider threats can