Hospitals have 'holy grail of personal data,' yet their spending lags on digital security
CHICAGO - When most people go to the hospital, data security is the last thing on their minds. They're in pain, anxious and unsure. They want to be treated and return to their lives.
Yet sometimes patients still have cause to worry months after they leave the hospital. They're discovering that data they gave to health systems - Social Security numbers, birth dates, health insurance information, medical information and credit card numbers - have been compromised in breaches.
In the past two years, 27 Illinois health care providers and companies have reported data breaches involving at least 500 patients. That includes a recent incident at
