Share of vulnerable files at U.S. healthcare organizations 2021

In 2020, as well as dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations in the United States were struggling with patient data protection, as the healthcare industry became a target for cyber attacks. A large amount of sensitive information is accessible to employees in the healthcare industry. As of March 2021, 16 percent of files were open to all employees at large healthcare organizations. In case of small organizations the share of exposed files was 25 percent on average.
On average, 12 percent of files containing sensitive information like personal health information were accessible to all employees.