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17 CIO / HEALTH IT Car Crashes Into a Pole, Bringing Down Epic EHR at Jefferson Healthcare By Erin Dietsche A car crashed into a utility pole in Poulsbo, Wash., on Dec. 31, affecting health- care and telephone services in the area, according to PTLeader.com. A 38-year-old man crashed his car into a utility pole, splitting it in half and caus- ing it to catch fire and burn. The man was taken to a nearby medical center and sus- tained non-life-threatening injuries. The crash temporarily brought down the Epic EHR system at Port Townsend, Wash.- based Jefferson Healthcare. Though the $4.7 million system was down from the afternoon of Dec. 31 until the eve- ning of Jan. 1, Jefferson Healthcare CEO Mike Glenn said patients were not harmed by the lack of connection. Mr. Glenn added that some nonemergency patients went home, accessed their Epic records through a separate system and brought their information back to providers at the hospital. The car crash also temporarily affected landline 911 services in sections of East Jeffer- son County. n 2016 Averaged 1 Healthcare Data Breach Per Day By Erin Dietsche T here was an average of one health data breach per day in 2016, according to the Protenus Breach Barometer, which utiliz- es information from DataBreaches.net. Protenus collaborated with DataBreaches.net to publish the "Breach Barometer Report: Year in Review." Here are eight additional findings from the analysis. 1. There were 450 total breach inci- dents in 2016. e analysis is based on 450 incidents either reported to HHS or disclosed to the media throughout the year. Information was available for 380 of the incidents. 2. More than 27 million patient records were breached in 2016. e breaches re- sulted in 27,314,647 affected patient records. 3. Insiders caused 43 percent of the data breach incidents. Insiders — includ- ing employees stealing patient information or snooping in patient files — were the cause of 192 incidents. Ninety-nine incidents were due to insider error or accident, and 91 were due to insider wrongdoing. 4. Hacking and ransomware were respon- sible for 26.8 percent of the breaches. Hacking and ransomware caused 120 breach in- cidents in 2016. e 120 includes 30 ransomware incidents and 10 incidents that involved ransom or extortion demands but not ransomware. 5. Of the entities that reported breach- es, 80.6 percent of them were health- care providers. Approximately 356 breach incidents involved healthcare providers. Anoth- er 45 incidents involved health plans. 6. It took the average entity 607 days to discover breaches caused by insider wrongdoing. On a wider scale, it took the av- erage entity 233 days to discover it had experi- ence a breach. 7. It took the average entity 344 days to report a breach to HHS. HHS requires enti- ties to report breaches within 60 days of discov- ery, and only 86 entities reported their breach to HHS within that timeframe. 8. Breach incidents affected 47 states. However, Protenus and DataBreaches.com only had location information available for 443 of the total incidents. California reported the most breaches — 73 — while Idaho, North Dakota and Vermont did not disclose any breaches. n Global Precision Medicine Market to Soar to Nearly $173B by 2024: 8 Key Trends By Anuja Vaidya The global precision medicine market is anticipated to expe- rience strong growth through 2024, according to Persistence Market Research. Here are eight key trends in the market. 1. The market's value will reach close to $172.95 billion by the end of 2024, growing at a com- pound annual growth rate of 14.7 percent between 2016 and 2024. 2. Larger investments, better in- frastructure, simplified approval process of drugs, along with com- panion diagnostics will drive mar- ket growth. 3. Some of the factors hindering the market include acute data storage and data privacy, as well as costliness of personalized drugs. 4. The immunology segment with- in the market will cross $34 million by the end of 2024. 5. The market will occupy more than 35 percent of the total mar- ket share in North America within the forecast period. It will reach a market value of more than $60 million by 2024. 6. The global precision market in Europe will experience an es- timated CAGR of more than 13 percent to reach more than $40 million by the end of 2024. 7. The Asia-Pacific region will be the fastest growing region for this market with a CAGR of 14 percent from 2016 to 2024. 8. The market in the Asia-Pacific region will touch approximately $35 million by the end of 2024. n