In the past two years, 27 health care providers and companies in the US state of Illinois reported data breaches involving at least 500 patients. That includes a recent incident at one location that may have exposed the information of 45,000 patients. Photo: Bildagentur-online/Tetra-Images/Bildagentur-online/dpa
CHICAGO: When most people go to the hospital, data security is the last thing on their minds. They're in pain, anxious and unsure. They want to be treated and return to their lives.
Yet sometimes patients still have cause to worry months after they leave the hospital. They're discovering that data they gave to health systems – social security numbers, birth dates, health insurance information, medical information and credit card numbers – have been compromised in breaches.
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