Nearly half of all hospitals had two-factor authentication abilities in 2014.
Hospital health IT departments are gaining capabilities for two-factor authentication at an increasing rate, helping to improve healthcare data security. Two-factor authentication capabilities are important for increasing health data security, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) reported, because it puts more barriers between sensitive health information and potential data thieves.
According to a recent report from the ONC, the number of hospitals with two-factor authentication capabilities has increased by 53 percent since 2010 (Figure 1).
In 2010, only about one-third of hospitals had these security capabilities; however, by 2014, nearly half of surveyed hospitals had two-factor authentication capabilities.
Two-factor authentication means that users need to input more than just a username and password in order to log into a certain data portal. For the full article click here
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