by medicaltechont | Mar 20, 2022 | Cloud, data
In cloud computing, the service provider has access to data as much as you do. It can be misused by the provider. Even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has expressed his concerns over cloud computing.
He said, “I want to feel that I own things. A lot of people feel, ‘Oh, everything is really on my computer,’ but I say the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.”
The terms for data confidentiality should be quoted loud and clear in the service agreement.
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by medicaltechont | Mar 19, 2022 | Cloud, data, hackers, Privacy
Thousands of databases stored in the cloud have been found to be unprotected and exposed to anyone with a browser. These mobile applications ranged from 10 000 or more downloads to 10 million or more downloads, and sensitive data exposed included personal family photos, token IDs on a healthcare applications, data from crypto-currency exchange platforms and more.
Lotem Finkelsteen, head of Threat Intelligence and Research at Check Point Software, says his team found the exposed databases by using Google’s free online tool VirusTotal, which analyses files and URLs to detect viruses, trojans, and other forms of malware.
The amount of data that sits openly and that is available to anyone on the cloud is crazy. It is much easier to breach than we think.
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by medicaltechont | Mar 7, 2022 | Cloud, Electronic Medical Records, hackers, Healthcare, Hospitals
Mon Health discovered the second data security incident on December 18, 2021, when it detected unusual network activity. After the discovery, Mon Health disabled a “significant portion” of its IT network and initiated downtime procedures.
The breach did not involve Mon Health’s EHR systems. Still, it potentially exposed the names, addresses, Medicare claim numbers, Social Security numbers, birth dates, health insurance plan member ID numbers, dates of service, patient account numbers, medical information, and health plan enrollment status of some patients, providers, employees, and contractors.
Mon Health discovered the second data security incident on December 18, 2021, when it detected unusual network activity. After the discovery, Mon Health disabled a “significant portion” of its IT network and initiated downtime procedures.
The breach did not involve Mon Health’s EHR systems. Still, it potentially exposed the names, addresses, Medicare claim numbers, Social Security numbers, birth dates, health insurance plan member ID numbers, dates of service, patient account numbers, medical information, and health plan enrollment status of some patients, providers, employees, and contractors.
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by medicaltechont | Feb 28, 2022 | Cloud, data, Electronic Medical Records, hackers
Hacking incidents still dominate the major health data breaches being reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the first months of 2022 by far, with only one other type of breach appearing on the federal tally so far this year.
McQuiggan counseled all organizations, including healthcare providers, to reduce the risk of compromise by investing in their employees and providing an engaging cybersecurity training program that will help them spot social engineering scams, such as phishing emails.
“Organizations that suffer a data breach discover the costs to recover have a significant financial impact,”
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by medicaltechont | Jun 9, 2018 | Cloud, Privacy, Security
The economic damage of a successful major cyber-attack against a large cloud services provider could be similar in scale to the financial impact of a destructive hurricane.
The destructive tropical cyclone hurricane Katrina hit the US in 2005, causing $108bn in damage — but that could be exceeded by the cost of a major cyber-attack, according to one expert.
Read more at https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-computing-why-a-major-cyber-attack-could-be-as-costly-as-a-hurricane/
by medicaltechont | Jun 9, 2018 | Canada, Cloud, e-Health, eHealth, Election, Electronic Medical Records, Healthcare, Hospitals, Medical Records, Technology
I have been a family physician practising in this province for 30 years. It is a great joy looking after my patients. However, looking after them in the health care quagmire of disconnected information and bureaucratic silos is becoming a nightmare. It is alarming seeing my young colleagues bewildered so early in their careers, and new graduates of family medicine are afraid to set up practice.
The province is carved up into 14 Local Health Integration Networks and 76 sub-LHINs each seemingly reinventing the wheel while consultants analyze the same things over and over again. There is an obsession with accountability frameworks designed by this ever growing bureaucracy that has little idea about what we actually do and what tools we need to do our job.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on a huge array of electronic repositories and information systems that don’t integrate at the most basic level with each other years after they were built. Providers spend countless hours trying to locate who does what where and what hoops to jump through to get appointments. We fax long paper forms with lab and other reports that are somehow not available from these expensive repositories. We typically access each other by phone in the absence of electronic messaging capabilities.
Read more at https://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/8651966-survival-at-the-front-lines-of-the-health-care-quagmire/
