On the black market, a stolen medical record goes for about $50 while a stolen Social Security number brings in a mere $1. This financial reality is the fuel behind the astounding growth of electronic medical records (EMR) theft over the past several years—a spreading problem that victimizes more than two million people each year with medical identity theft, according to Ponemon Institute's Third Annual National Study on Medical Identity Theft, which was released in June 2012.
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