Question 1

What is the average cost of a healthcare data breach in 2025?

Accepted Answer

According to IBM Security's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average cost of a healthcare data breach reached $7.42 million in 2025, making healthcare the most expensive industry for data breaches for the 14th consecutive year.

Question 2

How many patient records were breached in the United States in 2024?

Accepted Answer

Over 289 million patient records were breached in the United States in 2024, according to HIPAA Journal's 2026 annual breach report. This represents a dramatic increase driven by ransomware attacks and insecure third-party API integrations.

Question 3

What percentage of mHealth apps have security vulnerabilities?

Accepted Answer

According to HIPAA Journal's 2021 mHealth analysis, 100% of the most popular mHealth apps contain at least one high-risk vulnerability. The primary attack vectors include insecure API endpoints, weak authentication, and unencrypted data transmission.

Question 4

What is FHIR and why does it matter for healthcare API security?

Accepted Answer

FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is the HL7 standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. By 2024, 7 in 10 hospitals used FHIR APIs for patient data access. Because FHIR APIs expose sensitive health records, they must be rigorously tested for authentication flaws, broken object-level authorization (BOLA), and data leakage vulnerabilities.

Question 5

How much ROI does AI deliver in healthcare organizations?

Accepted Answer

AI delivers an average ROI of $3.20 for every $1 invested in healthcare, according to DemandSage's 2026 analysis. Additionally, 82% of healthcare executives report positive ROI expectations from their AI investments (McKinsey, 2026).

Question 6

What percentage of healthcare organizations have adopted GenAI?

Accepted Answer

85% of healthcare organizations have already adopted or explored GenAI by end of 2024, up from 72% in Q1 2024, according to Vention Teams' 2025 research. 70% of payers and providers are actively pursuing GenAI implementation in 2025.

Question 7

What are the most common healthcare API security threats?

Accepted Answer

The most common healthcare API security threats include: phishing and credential theft (72% of healthcare organizations targeted, Proofpoint 2025), API-layer attacks (87% of healthcare organizations reported incidents in 2025, Akamai 2026), ransomware via exposed API endpoints, and AI-assisted attacks where 1 in 6 breaches in 2025 involved attackers using AI tools (IBM, 2025).

Question 8

What is the healthcare API market size and growth forecast?

Accepted Answer

The global healthcare API market was valued at $1.25 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $1.72 billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 5.4%, driven by cloud adoption and the digitalization of medical records (Grand View Research, 2025). Separately, the broader digital health market was valued at $379.44 billion in 2025.

Question 9

How many hospitals use APIs for patient data access?

Accepted Answer

According to the ASTP/ONC Data Brief No. 81 (February 2026), 9 in 10 hospitals use APIs to enable apps to grant patient access to EHR data, 7 in 10 hospitals use standards-based FHIR APIs, and over 2 in 3 hospitals enable patients to submit health data through apps.

Question 10

How does Keploy help secure healthcare APIs?

Accepted Answer

Keploy is an AI-powered API testing platform that uses eBPF-based traffic capture to automatically generate test cases from real API traffic — with no code changes required. For healthcare teams, this means HIPAA-compliant regression testing, automated FHIR/HL7 validation, and continuous security testing integrated directly into CI/CD pipelines. Keploy reduces test creation time by up to 80% while achieving 90%+ API coverage.

Question 11

What percentage of healthcare organizations can track their AI usage?

Accepted Answer

Only 35% of healthcare organizations can track their AI usage, the lowest of any industry, according to Kiteworks (2025). HIPAA requires tracking 100% of patient data access, yet only 17% of healthcare companies have technical controls to block unauthorized data uploads to AI platforms.

Question 12

How long does it take to detect and contain a healthcare data breach?

Accepted Answer

The average time to detect and contain a healthcare data breach is 14 months, significantly longer than other industries, according to IBM Security's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report. This extended detection window increases breach costs and patient harm exposure, making proactive API security testing critical.