Investigations and penalties are the tip of the iceberg for breach costs. Loss of trust, damaged brand reputation, and operational disruption all impact your bottom line. Here are the trends behind reported healthcare breaches and what causes them.
724 more healthcare breaches were reported in the last 12 months.
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See the latest →Breach causes and OCR's most-cited investigation findings, mapped onto the control areas a HIPAA assessment uses. This is a relative view of where enforcement attention concentrates. Each area is scaled by how often it appears in enforcement findings and in breach causes.
Sources: HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal and resolution agreements (national HIPAA breaches and enforcement) and the Washington State Attorney General (healthcare sector, 500+ residents). Informational only, not legal advice.
Drawn from 14 OCR top-cited findings (14 enforcement signals) and 7,389 categorized breaches. “enf” = share of enforcement signals implicating the area; “brch” = share of categorized breaches whose cause does.