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Fear of data breaches leads 21% of patients to withhold information from physicians

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Dissent

Elizabeth Earl reports:

The national attention on the risk of data breaches may be keeping patients from sharing information with physicians.

A survey from Austin, Texas-based software advising firm Software Advice of 243 people found that 45 percent of respondents were moderately or very concerned about security breaches involving personal health information. Nearly a quarter, 21 percent, withholds personal information from their physicians for fear of a data breach.

Read more on Becker’s Hospital Review.


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