医疗记录被数字化，以帮助防止误诊和药物错误等医疗错误，但电子医疗记录(EHR)使坏人更容易窃取患者高度个人的信息。
Ellen Neveux在安全远程访问提供商SecureLink的博客中写道，针对医院的网络攻击“年复一年呈指数级增长”。
Neveux表示:“医疗数据在黑市上很有价值，因为它包含了个人所有的个人识别信息，而不是可能在财务漏洞中发现的单一标记。”通常，这些攻击会导致“数十万患者的数据被泄露或窃取”。
这些数据可能被骗子用来进行财务欺诈，比如提交虚假的纳税申报单或使用盗用的身份申请信用。
安全软件公司Netwrix在其《2020年网络威胁报告》中指出，医疗保健IT专业人员最担心的是更强或更频繁的网络攻击，以及用户忽视安全指南。
据网络安全公司CI Security称，今年1月至6月，报告的医疗数据泄露和被破坏记录的数量有所下降，但网络攻击预计将激增至今年年底。
CI安全公司认为，这是因为患者的医疗记录“比暗网络上的信用卡号码价值高10倍”。“医疗机构将需要比以往任何时候都更高的网络安全警惕。”
原文：Healthcare records were digitized to help prevent medical errors such as misdiagnoses and mistakes with medication, but electronic health records (EHR) have made it easier for bad actors to steal patients' highly personal information.
Cyberattacks on hospitals are "increasing exponentially year after year," Ellen Neveux wrote in secure remote access provider SecureLink's blog.
"Healthcare data is valuable on the black market because it contains all of an individual's personally identifiable information, as opposed to a single marker that may be found in a financial breach," Neveux stated. Often, these attacks see "hundreds of thousands of patients' data compromised or stolen."
That data can be used by crooks for financial fraud such as filing false tax returns or applying for credit using a stolen identity.
Healthcare IT professionals' greatest fears are stronger or more frequent cyberattacks, and users ignoring security guidelines, as stated by security software firm Netwrix in its 2020 Cyber Threats Report.
The number of reported healthcare data breaches and of breached records fell between January and June, but cyberattacks are expected to surge through to the end of the year, according to cybersecurity firm CI Security.
That's because patient medical records "are worth as much as 10 times more than credit card numbers on the Dark Web," CI Security maintains. "Healthcare organizations will require more cybersecurity vigilance than ever before."
