Nick Marinos: Medicare, Medicaid may lack training for data protection

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services generate terabytes of health data about millions of individuals. In general it protects the data even as it is used by external groups for a variety of purposes. But analysis by the Government Accountability Office found a hole in oversight of data security. Nick Marinos, director of cybersecurity and information management issues at the GAO, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more.