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Survey: 18% of Health Employees Would Sell Confidential Data

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Dissent

Those who said they were willing to sell the data would do so for as little as between $500 and $1,000.

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Alexandra Wilson Pecci reports:

Patients trust their healthcare providers to keep their data safe, but according to a new survey, that trust might sometimes be misplaced.

The Accenture survey found that nearly one in five health employees (18%) said they would be willing to sell confidential data to unauthorized parties. In fact, the respondents who said they were willing to sell the data would do so for as little as between $500 and $1,000.

Read more on HealthLeaders Media.

h/t, Matt Fisher 

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