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From inside medical centers and through outside medical and therapy practices, multi-millions of dollars are being fraudulently taken but government prosecutors are getting tougher.

For healthcare security executives, bomb threats often come out of the blue or from disgruntled current and former employees. But some can come from a disgruntled patient.

An emergency operations plan (EOP) provides the structure and processes that a healthcare facility and its security and safety operation use to respond to and initially recover from an event. The EOP is therefore the response and recovery component of an emergency management program.

Healthcare security and safety executives have more in common than they have differences and share more of their core mission than enterprise security leaders serving other industries.

94 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed have suffered at least one data breach in the last year, according to the Ponemon report.

Although many doctors communicate via unsecured text messages, many hospitals are not actively addressing ongoing IT security concerns. 

Overall crime at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania decreased 21 percent during 2012, and there was a 13 percent decrease in crime at Penn Presbyterian Medical center since 2011.

A recent Ponemon institute survey reported that while the cost for data breaches is trending downward, this does not apply to stolen healthcare information.

A person is more likely to get struck by lightening than shot while at a hospital, according to new research by Johns Hopkins.

Hospitals and other medical care facilities present unique challenges to the security professional.