Instead, Dittrich believes companies should work on improving their logging and data collection of security events and doing a better job of presenting it to law enforcement.

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But the risk of data loss begins even before logging on, she said.

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Six years ago, radiologist Michael Zalis found himself spending a lot of time logging in and out of separate electronic health records at Massachusetts General Hospital to gather lab data, clinical notes, and other non-imaging information scattered in multiple databases.

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