Which hospital type is at greatest risk to a data breach?

Teaching Hospitals. 

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School looked at data for data breeches at hospitals:

  •  1,798 data breaches hit hospitals from Oct. 21, 2009, to Dec. 31, 2016
  • 33 hospitals reported more than one breach — many of them teaching hospitals. 
  • Of the 141 acute care hospitals that reported breaches to HHS, 52 were major academic medical centers
  • In 2016, the overall number of electronic records that were compromised grew by 566% to more than 4 billion

Health Care Dive | Teaching hospitals at higher risk for data breaches, study finds