A Review on Data Breaches in Healthcare Security Systems

Providing security to Health Information is considered the topmost priority compared to any other field.After digitalizing patients records in the medical field, the healthcare/medical field has become a victim of several internal and external cyberattacks.Data breaches in the healthcare industry have been increasing rapidly.Despite having security standards such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), data breaches still happen on a daily basis.All various types of data breaches have a similar harmful impact on healthcare data, especially on patients' privacy.This paper aims to understand the aspects that led to healthcare data breaches via ransomware incidence and their impact on the patients and healthcare providers.In addition, the paper reviews the current possible solutions to improve the healthcare security system by analyzing the efficiency of these solutions.We studied the most significant healthcare data breaches via ransomware attacks that occurred in the U.S. from 2015 to 2020.We analyzed the obtained data from different academic and business sectors resources that target the reasons for the healthcare data breaches.