Healthcare is made more expensive by all these rules about IT. Healthcare is made more expensive by a lot of things. Sometimes the cost of treating one specifi

Healthcare is made more expensive by all these rules about IT. Healthcare is made more expensive by a lot of things. Sometimes the cost of treating one specific condition affecting one specific individual right now isn't the only thing that matters. It isn’t some catastrophe if a breach happens. Given that we're potentially talking about sensitive personal data, that is a wildly unsafe assumption. Sadly our society has and probably always will have both widespread cultural prejudices and individual personal prejudices against people who have or have had certain conditions, who are receiving or have received certain treatments or procedures, and so on. If a computer wasn't fully encrypted but no identifiable data ever actually leaked then sure, that's a technicality but no real harm was done on that occasion. If a computer with a list of everyone who say had an abortion or received treatment for their mental health in the last decade was held insecurely and that data was leaked to the wrong people after a breach then that could profoundly affect or in the worst case even endanger the lives of the people involved.