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Released: December 19, 2011
As patient records are digitized, data breaches are on the rise
Source: Nicole Perlroth, NY Times
One afternoon last spring, Micky Tripathi received a panicked call from an employee. Someone had broken into his car and stolen his briefcase and company laptop along with it.
Micky Tripathi runs the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative.
So began a nightmare that cost Mr. Tripathi’s small nonprofit health consultancy nearly $300,000 in legal, private investigation, credit monitoring and media consultancy fees. Not to mention 600 hours dealing with the fallout and the intangible cost of repairing the reputational damage that followed.
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