Hospitals are complex places. Lots of staff, lots of data being transferred between systems some of which are insecure and there's nothing you can do about that, because they're required, and no competitors exist.
The main reason that the number of breaches in hospitals is as low as it is is because for the most part people don't target hospitals so relatively basic security functions. Now of course we have people doing it "for the lulz" or to prove some sort of point which makes health care even harder to do.
In a hospital environment you have to cater for doctors which no one other than the person running their accreditation even knows exist, nurses who view IT as a barrier between them and what they actually do, patients who want miracles, and health funds who seem to desire complexity for the sake of complexity. Connect all that up to IT products which haven't been updated since the mid 90's, never will be updated and can't be replaced because the group that would certify a competitor makes the product in question, add in vastly disparate WAN locations, a need for instant performance and 5 nines up time all on a shoestring budget and you'll start to get a picture of hospital IT.
In the end you really have to ask yourself, is it better or worse to risk having a portion of your medical record stolen, or to die because the doctors couldn't get the information they needed quick enough. Sadly that's about how the choices line up, hospitals aren't generally negligent, it's just the nature of the game.
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