Post-Quantum Encryption for Healthcare and HIPAA Industry Post-Quantum Encryption for Healthcare and HIPAA 11 min read Healthcare Data: A High-Value, Long-Lived Target Healthcare organizations store some of the most sensitive and long-lived data in any industry. Electronic protected health information (ePHI) includes medical diagnoses, treatment histories, genetic data, prescription records, and insurance details. Unlike a stolen credit card number that can be replaced in days, a compromised medical record exposes a patient permanently. The information it contains does not change: your medical history is your medical history for life. This makes healthcare a prime target for sophisticated adversaries executing harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks . An attacker who captures encrypted ePHI today does not need to break the encryption immediately. They can store the ciphertext and wait for a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) to become available.…