Here are five key takeaways:
1. While all healthcare organizations reported that they are collecting, storing and sharing sensitive data, only 38 percent said they are encrypting the data.
2. A majority of organizations (80 percent) are transferring sensitive data to the cloud.
3. Survey respondents (46 percent) ranked complexity as a top barrier to deploying data security solutions.
4. Around 25 percent of respondents failed data security compliance audits in the past year.
5. Around 62 percent of healthcare providers reported that they plan to use encryption and tokenization to meet compliance mandates.
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