Why any organization can suffer a healthcare breach, and 5 tips for keeping PHI safe

It appears that companies don't have to be in the healthcare business to suffer a health information breach. About 90 percent of all industries have had protected health information compromised, according to Verizon's PHI Data Breach Report 2015. More than 392 million PHI records have been disclosed from non-healthcare businesses, according to the report, but the actual total could be much higher since 24 percent of the breached organizations did not provide an exact number of records involved. Industries with the most PHI data breaches, not including healthcare or government entities, are finance and insurance, education, retail and professional services, such as law offices and tax preparers, according to Verizon.