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A survey of the healthcare industry reveals that less than half the companies surveyed are bolstering privacy and security measures to keep up with the growing use of digital technology, Reuters reports. Of the 600 executives interviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute, nearly 74 percent are planning to expand the use of electronic health records, but only 47 percent are addressing related privacy and security implications. One of the report's contributors, Jim Koenig, CIPP, said, "health IT and new uses of health information are changing quickly and the privacy and security sometimes may not be moving in step...That is some of the most sensitive and important information to a consumer, so with the advancement of healthcare IT, it's only natural that advancements in privacy and security should come along."  
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