Data loss and breaches can cost businesses plenty in terms of lost productivity, lost revenue, damage to the brand, and expensive recovery efforts. But for healthcare providers, the stakes are even higher. Failure to adequately protect clinical and patient data literally could cost lives.

In the seven years since the federal government began offering incentives to healthcare providers to use electronic health records (EHRs), adoption has skyrocketed. In 2008, only 9.4% of U.S. hospitals had some kind of EHR system; by 2014, that climbed to 76%, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In that same time frame, EHR adoption by private practices nearly doubled.

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