Study: Hospital data breaches tied to thousands of additional patient deaths

(By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review)

A researcher at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management claims more than 2,100 patient deaths each year can be attributed to hospital data breaches, according to The Wall Street Journal. Continue reading article here…

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