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This appeared last week:7 steps to avoiding a human data breach Kate Gillman Ms Gillman is head of medicolegal advisory service at Avant. 27th June 2019Dramatic cyber-attacks may make the headlines, but in fact, simple human error accounts for more data breaches in the health sector than any shadowy figures.In the first year of the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) advised that health service providers reported the highest number of incidents, around 20% of all breaches.Of the breaches involving health service providers, more than half were due to human error.We ’ve reviewed the OAIC report and calls to Avant involving data breaches, and have identified the following key learnings.1. Check before pressing sendErrors such as private information being sent to the wrong recipient accounted for one in 10 breaches reported to the OAIC.This was also high on our list of reasons for calls — and the source of considerable...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 2, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs