An alarming trend persisted in 2020 as hospitals and health systems battled COVID-19 surges and raced to develop a better understanding of the virus: hacking incidents increased for the fifth year in a row. 

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Though it dominated media coverage, COVID-19 wasn't the only silent enemy healthcare organizations battled in 2020. Amid the chaos of the pandemic, hospitals and health systems were also ravaged by health data breaches, which were up 30% in 2020 compared to 2019. A new trend emerged of at least two data breaches per day.

Health systems are beginning to realize the untapped potential of compliance analytics for efficiently auditing the roughly 60 million electronic health record queries occurring each month in an average-sized U.S. hospital. With an artificial intelligence-powered compliance analytics program, organizations can surface unusual access patterns that warrant human investigation, thereby fortifying patient data security and creating new workflow efficiencies.

At Protenus, customers are our top priority. By continuously working to understand the evolving challenges facing our partnered healthcare organizations, we deliver a solution that plugs easily into existing workflows, minimizes cumbersome manual labor, and better ensures organizational compliance.