Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2022 Oct 1;19(4):1c. eCollection 2022 Fall.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in cybersecurity attacks on organizations operating in the healthcare industry. Health information professionals and health executives are unable to limit the impact of data breaches on records their organizations handle. While current research focuses on prevention strategies and the understanding of the causes of data breaches, it failed to address how to mitigate the impact of successful cybersecurity attacks. This quantitative research paper examined the effect the healthcare entity type has on the number of impacted individuals for healthcare data breaches that occurred during the pandemic. Health information professionals will be able to mitigate the number of breached records based on their organizational type. Some of this paper's findings include the call for implementation of organizational frameworks aimed to protect patient information, and the call for further research to understand how other factors might affect the impact of healthcare data breaches.
新冠疫情大流行导致针对医疗保健行业运营组织的网络安全攻击有所增加。负责处理记录的健康信息专业人员和卫生管理人员无法限制数据泄露对记录的影响。虽然当前的研究侧重于预防策略和对数据泄露原因的理解，但未能解决如何减轻成功的网络安全攻击的影响。本定量研究论文研究了在疫情期间发生的医疗保健数据泄露事件中，医疗机构类型对受影响个人数量的影响。健康信息专业人员将能够根据其组织类型来减少泄露记录的数量。本文的一些研究结果包括呼吁实施旨在保护患者信息的组织框架，以及呼吁开展进一步研究以了解其他因素如何可能影响医疗保健数据泄露的影响。
