The UCLA Health System Data Breach: How Bad Could It Be…?

Healthcare Informatics: Just hours ago, a Los Angeles Times report broke the news that hackers had broken into the UCLA Health System, creating a data breach that may affect 4.5 million people. This may turn out to be one of the biggest breaches of its kind in a single patient care organization to date, in the U.S. healthcare system. And it follows by only a few months the enormous data breach at Anthem, one of the nation’s largest commercial health insurers, a breach that has potentially compromised the data of x million Americans.

Read article