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.
Click here to read more.
by medicaltechont | Jun 4, 2016 | Doctors, Technology
Ontarians could soon be able to find out how much their doctors are billing the province’s health insurance plan annually.
An adjudicator with the province’s Information and Privacy Commission has ordered the government to disclose the names of doctors and the amounts they have billed the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP).
Read more online at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doctors-ohip-billing-information-privacy-1.3615347
by medicaltechont | Feb 27, 2016 | EHR, Electronic Medical Records, Hospitals, Medical Records, Security, United States
Ransomware has seriously turned on to a noxious game of Hackers to get paid effortlessly.
Once again the heat was felt by the Los Angeles-based Presbyterian Medical Center when a group of hackers had sealed all its sensitive files and demanded $17,000 USD to regain the access to those compromised data.
The devastation of the compromised files can be pitched as:
- Compromised emails
- Lockout Electronic Medical Record System [EMR]
- Encrypted patient data
- Unable to carry CT Scans of the admitted patients
- Ferried risky patients to nearby hospitals
As the situation was grown out of wild, the hospital paid 40 Bitcoins (Roughly US $17,000) to the Ransomware Criminals to resume their medical operations after gaining the decryption keys.
“The quickest and most efficient way to restore our systems and administrative functions was to pay the ransom and obtain the decryption key,” the hospital CEO Allen Stefanek said in a letter.
All the electronic medical system were restored back soon after unlocking the encrypted file locks.
The Ransomware had stolen the nights of many network administrators, as they would be often blamed to fight up this nasty threat; instead of blaming staffs who click the illegit links in their e-mail.
http://thehackernews.com/2016/02/ransomware-medical-record.html?utm_source=THNLS&utm_medium=BelowLS&utm_campaign=LS
http://hollywoodpresbyterian.com/default/assets/File/20160217%20Memo%20from%20the%20CEO%20v2.pdf
by medicaltechont | Dec 20, 2014 | Security, Technology
Staples says as many as 1.16 million customer credit cards may have been compromised as part of a malware attack on some of its point-of-sale systems earlier this year. Today the company released some of its findings of an investigation into the attacks, saying that malware was found in 113 of its US stores, and may have affected purchases at those locations made between August 10th, 2014 and September 16th, 2014. Staples added that at two stores, the malicious software could have been running unseen for even longer, dating all the way back to late-July.
http://www.appy-geek.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=3&articleid=33562847
by medicaltechont | Dec 18, 2014 | Canada, e-Health, eHealth, EHR, Healthcare, Privacy, Security
Ontario’s privacy commissioner has found the Rouge Valley Health System failed to protect patient health information following a review of two separate privacy breaches, which may have affected patients at both Centenary and Ajax-Pickering hospitals.
http://m.durhamregion.com/news-story/5211578-privacy-breaches-at-rouge-valley-hospital-may-have-affected-ajax-pickering-patients/
