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Healthcare Blockchain Could Save Industry $100B Annually by 2025

August 5, 2019 - Healthcare blockchain could save the industry up to $100 billion per year in costs related to IT, operations, support functions, personnel, and health data breaches by 2025, estimated a report by BIS Research. Pharmaceutical companies will benefit from using blockchain to track drugs, thus reducing the around $200 billion these companies lose from...


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by Fred Donovan

Insiders pose the biggest security threat to healthcare organizations, according to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). A disturbing 60 percent of data breaches involved...

Organizations See 878% Health Data Growth Rate Since 2016

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare organizations have seen an explosive health data growth rate of 878 percent since 2016, reaching 8.41 petabytes (PB) on average in 2018, according statistics compiled by Dell EMC. The scale...

Healthcare Hardest Hit by Cyberattacks, Data Breaches in 2018

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare was the leading industry for cyberattacks and data breaches last year, making up 41 percent of cyber incidents tracked by specialty insurer Beazley. The financial services industry was in a...