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Hacker Takes Credit for Theft of Data on Nearly 10 Million Patients By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee for Data Breach Today A hacker is reportedly selling on the dark web copies of databases stolen from three unidentified U.S. healthcare organizations and one unnamed health insurer containing data on nearly 10 million individuals for prices ranging from…
By Laurence Chu, MD, FACS for Forbes Current information technology is lacking an efficient and comprehensive solution to everyday care for the healthcare provider and patient. For many physicians, there is a forced acceptance of the electronic medical record (EMR). Providers have choices from EMR vendors like athenahealth, Cerner CERN, eClinicalWorks, Epic , General Electric’s…
By Christopher Moraff for The Daily Beast The feds are fighting to look at millions of private files without a warrant, including those of two transgender men who are taking testosterone. Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a double knee replacement. Jones, an assistant fire chief of Utah’s…
By Mike Bassett for For The Record, Vol. 28 No. 5 P. 16 With the announcement of the proposed rule, the M&M acronyms are quickly becoming top of mind for health care executives. In the long tradition of producing acronyms at a frightening pace, the health care industry has succeeded in producing two more that are rolling…
By Barry Petchesky for DEADSPIN In late April, the NFL recently informed its players, a Skins athletic trainer’s car was broken into. The thief took a backpack, and inside that backpack was a cache of electronic and paper medical records for thousands of players, including NFL Combine attendees from the last 13 years. That would…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on June, 2016 and is republished here with permission. Teachers know there are two kinds of students. Student A studies and does their assigned reading throughout the whole semester, earning extra credit where they can. When the final exam rolls up, they’re…
By Hal Hodson for New Scientist It’s no secret that Google has broad ambitions in healthcare. But a document obtained by New Scientist reveals that the tech giant’s collaboration with the UK’s National Health Service goes far beyond what has been publicly announced. The document – a data-sharing agreement between Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind and…
By Lisa Vaas for naked security Every week seems to bring news of another case of ransomware. It’s nasty stuff. Nasty enough that the US and Canada on Thursday issued a rare joint cyber alert warning about the recent surge in ransomware attacks, in which data is encrypted and crooks demand payment for it to be unlocked. The…
Presbyterian Medical Center has paid $17,000 to hackers who took over its computer systems. By Todd Campbell for The Motley Fool After hackers used malware to commandeer computers at Presbyterian Medical Center on Feb. 5, the Hollywood hospital paid them over $17,000 in ransom to regain control over their systems. The cyber-ransom is the latest threat posed by…
By Michael Walter for Radiology Business IBM has announced plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based analytics company, for $2.6 billion. The deal will give IBM access to the data of more than 200 million unique patients, helping it further strengthen the power and capabilities of its cognitive Watson Health unit. “With this acquisition,…