Have Your Healthcare Records Have Been Stolen, too?

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Have Your Healthcare Records Have Been Stolen, too?</strong></p> <p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Craig Peterson: </span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces= "true">We all have healthcare records, and they have some of our most personal information. That's what we're talking about today in follow-up to a webinar I did for the healthcare industry. So we're going to chat right now a little bit more about your privacy.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Craig Peterson here.  </span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The actual hard stats on our healthcare records, a lot of them have been stolen. It's just crazy to think about because, in reality, we have had millions of records stolen, 300 million healthcare records stolen to be exact since 2015; that is pretty bad.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">[00:00:38] I'm looking at a chart right now that I showed to this healthcare industry group that is showing that the hacking event has almost doubled over the last three years, year to year, every year. So in 2018, 164 powerful hacks 2019, 312. That's a good double. 2020, 430, which isn't quite a double. So we are seeing a lot of data being stolen. But, of course, stolen data means misused data, which is a huge problem.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">[00:01:14] Now, in the healthcare industry, they've got a different problem. That is these HIPAA rules. Now HIPAA has been in place for quite a while. It's supposed to have been provided Portability of our records. Does anybody have any real luck with that? I know there are some I haven't.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">[00:01:30] Portability, I don't even know where my health records have ended up. Frankly, cause my doctor ended up closing up shop, and I just have no idea. But it's supposed to be Portability and privacy. Well, the most common violations of these HIPAA regulations revolve around professional hackers.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver