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Hospitals Seeing More Patient Data Breaches
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mipa 
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 07:46 AM
The 'mobility age' will be the death of us all. Not the Internet. The lack of security on everyone's mobile devices be that phones, laptops, tablets, etc. Too many companies--and hospitals are among the worst--have good secure procedues in place and 'destructive' applications which erase a hard drive if someone other than the owner tries to access the information. What's needed is biometric access only and if someone tries without the proper credentials the software erases the entire disc for security reasons.
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 01:19 PM
mipa, on 15 April 2012 - 07:46 AM, said:
The 'mobility age' will be the death of us all. Not the Internet. The lack of security on everyone's mobile devices be that phones, laptops, tablets, etc. Too many companies--and hospitals are among the worst--have good secure procedues in place and 'destructive' applications which erase a hard drive if someone other than the owner tries to access the information. What's needed is biometric access only and if someone tries without the proper credentials the software erases the entire disc for security reasons.
Well said. Human beings are still human and still make mistakes. There must be some sort of physical control. Rules and regulation are not doing the job.
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 05:51 PM
We can blame the current administration in the white house for this issue. The administration spent 3 billion to have health records changed to the net. This only made the problem worse, since hospitals and doctors do not have the proper protection in place to prevent hijacking of personal info. Thank the current admin for your records being naked to the thieves of society. This is the price we pay for people who have NO CLUE OF WHAT THEY ARE BLOWING OUR MONEY ON. WITHOUT THE PROPER PROTECTION IN PLACE TO PREVENT THE HIJACKING OF RECORDS THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ON THE WEB WITHOUT PROPER PROTECTION EVERYONE IN AMERICA WILL PAY A PRICE. Another gift from Chicago. We will learn from the mistakes of people who do not have a clue of what they are doing to the people. Remember in November.
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 06:13 PM
olddave208, on 15 April 2012 - 05:51 PM, said:
We can blame the current administration in the white house for this issue. The administration spent 3 billion to have health records changed to the net. This only made the problem worse, since hospitals and doctors do not have the proper protection in place to prevent hijacking of personal info. Thank the current admin for your records being naked to the thieves of society. This is the price we pay for people who have NO CLUE OF WHAT THEY ARE BLOWING OUR MONEY ON. WITHOUT THE PROPER PROTECTION IN PLACE TO PREVENT THE HIJACKING OF RECORDS THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ON THE WEB WITHOUT PROPER PROTECTION EVERYONE IN AMERICA WILL PAY A PRICE. Another gift from Chicago. We will learn from the mistakes of people who do not have a clue of what they are doing to the people. Remember in November.
Sorry, I don't like him a bit better than you. He inherited this problem and it came in soon after the Internet was opened to traffic. He could do more, so blame him for the right things.
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 07:34 AM
This is no big deal. Worry not that someone might find out that you have hemorrhoids. Worry that you are even in a hospital, for they might kill you. Perhaps you will escape your stay with only an accidental amputation or a mis-dosage of a medication that only partially destroys your lungs.
According to a recent article in the AARP magazine, American hospitals kill and maim as many people every year as would die if a jumbo jet crashed every week. Wrong medications, overdoses, staph and Mrsa infections, wrong surgical procedures, etc all take place regularly. I can testify--a 13 year-old relative was given the wrong medication for an asthma attack and died from heart failure. 13 years old! A friend was admitted for pneumonia and came our permanently crippled from a spinal staph infection. Two different hospitals.
A data breach at the hospital is the least of your problems. Best advice: eat well, exercise, drive carefully and stay away from hospitals. If you don't go there, they won't have your data and they can't harm you.
According to a recent article in the AARP magazine, American hospitals kill and maim as many people every year as would die if a jumbo jet crashed every week. Wrong medications, overdoses, staph and Mrsa infections, wrong surgical procedures, etc all take place regularly. I can testify--a 13 year-old relative was given the wrong medication for an asthma attack and died from heart failure. 13 years old! A friend was admitted for pneumonia and came our permanently crippled from a spinal staph infection. Two different hospitals.
A data breach at the hospital is the least of your problems. Best advice: eat well, exercise, drive carefully and stay away from hospitals. If you don't go there, they won't have your data and they can't harm you.
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