There are masses of medical data stored on servers around the world and unfortunately hackers manage to find ways into these storage systems and gain access to this highly sensitive data.<\/p>\n
This can be particularly relevant in the U.S., where their healthcare system means records are managed by a number of private organisations, or sourced to private entities whose responsibility is to manage medical records for several healthcare institutes. Although such ease of access can be beneficial from a medical perspective, the danger is the growing exposure of medical data to being hacked.
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\nIn America, private healthcare organisations and companies who are outsourced to handle medical data are regularly being hit with class action lawsuits after hackers have found their way into databases and servers. <\/p>\n