The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has released Perspectives on Cybersecurity in Healthcare, a report discussing how healthcare organizations can best “mitigate, discover and respond” to data breach threats, FierceHealthIT reports. "The risk of cyberattacks is no longer limited to the IT desk—it is a key business issue that must be addressed by executive leadership teams in order to build that culture of prevention," said WEDI CEO and President Devin Jopp. WEDI-amassed statistics indicate urgency is necessary. “In the first four months of 2015 alone, more than 99 million healthcare records have already been exposed through 93 separate attacks,”the WEDI document states.
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