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 | 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 | Sep 24, 2016 | data, Healthcare, Technology
In it’s basic translation Big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate to deal with them. Challenges include analysis, capture, data curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy. Below is an interesting article on Big Data and Healthcare.
This looming change will be the focus of Big Data: Transforming Patient Care, an evening event at the Big Data Congress taking place in Saint John next month. The event is not only for those attending the congress, but anyone interested in learning how data is revolutionizing healthcare.
The event will feature Jamie Heywood, co-founder and chairman of PatientsLikeMe; Tyler Wish, CEO and co-founder of Sequence Bio, and New Brunswick’s own Erik Scheme, a biomedical engineer and data scientist.
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