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Researchers Question Previous Health Data Breach Study

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Dissent

Elizabeth Snell reports:

Claiming that larger healthcare facilities have a higher risk of experiencing a health data breach “neglects inherent biases in data collection and reporting practices,” according to a letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Vanderbilt University researchers Daniel Fabbri, PhD, Mark E. Frisse, MD, and Bradley Malin, PhD, wrote a letter to the editor in response to a study published earlier in 2017. That previous study used reported breach data from HHS and claimed that having greater access to healthcare data (common in larger hospitals and teaching-focused facilities) could lead to greater breach risk.

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