More than 27 million Android devices with medical apps on them also potentially have at least one high-risk malware, says Skycure. Also, some 65 percent of doctors share patient data by text message, while 33 percent do so using Whatsapp.
In 2013, eight percent of doctors used mobile devices to manage in-patient data. By 2014, that grew to 31 percent. By 2015, 70 percent of doctors did so, Skycure says.
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“Smart devices are seen by the hacker community as the most vulnerable of gateways to sensitive data (HIPAA-protected patient data),” says Skycure.
According to Kaspersky Labs, adware is the most prevalent type of mobile malware at 26.7 percent in the second quarter of 2014, followed by trojan text messages at 22 percent.
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