Despite the increasing number of healthcare data breaches reported, 43 percent of healthcare consumers believe that their EHRs will be protected by their physicians.
In fact, only 2 percent of those aged 18 to 34 years and 7 percent of those over the age of 50 believed that their healthcare providers could have a data breach.
For the survey, 1,000 consumers were polled.
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