[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/keep-calm-and-secure-your-data-4.png” thumb_width=”150″ /]Don’t feel bad, HIT execs–the Feds are even worse. Complementary to our coverage of the increased danger of hacked health IT systems and data breaches (the trail of tears is here and here) is the oddly muted press clamor around the 4 June hacking report of the Federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Chinese hackers roamed around two OPM databases–personnel and security clearances–for nearly a year, according to CNN’s Senate briefing coverage. The breach likely exceeded 18 million records, though the real number may never be known. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse summarizes it and provides an interesting link... Continue Reading
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The leaky roof of healthcare data (in)security–DARPA to the rescue?
This week’s priceless quote: “A lot of the response was, ‘We live in a cornfield in the middle of Minnesota,’” he said. “’Who wants to hurt us? Who can even find us here?’”–Jim Nelms, Mayo Clinic’s first chief information security officer, We know where you are and what you do! The precarious state of healthcare data security at facilities and with insurers, plus increased external threats from hacking has been getting noticed by Congress–when you see it in POLITICO, you know finally it’s made it into the Rotunda. It was over the horizon late last summer with the FBI alert... Continue Reading
Do startups truly threaten the ‘healthcare establishment’?
...with a great idea’. **The new standard is ‘where does it fit’— into workflow, healthcare business model, saving money, improving measurable outcome goals, knitting together data and communications–and more–and does it solve real, measurable problems. **FDA and government involvement, security/hacking threats and that your IP really does need to be protected further favors some critical mass and caution. The smarter parts of the Healthcare Establishment are buying innovation: note the purchases and alliances recently made by Humana, Anthem, GE (Ventures-StartUp Health and Care Innovations’ certifications), Optum (Alere Health) and Medtronic (Cardiocom), Mayo Clinic backing Better, and HealthSpot/Xerox (only ‘to hand’... Continue Reading
Ford disconnects research on heart attack-sensing car seat
...apps. German Engineering not to be outdone, BMW had also toyed with a stress app in its steering wheel to monitor perspiration. This would be of great use on a hot day or in average city traffic. The Google/Apple/Tesla hype, and threat to the main automakers, has turned to the self-driving car, which has its own advantages (enabling mobility for those who cannot or no longer can drive, an adjunct to urban transit) and disadvantages (hacking and for the truly paranoid, limitations on mobility equivalent to geo-fencing). Once all about apps, it’s now about autonomous cars, security, privacy and managing... Continue Reading
58 percent of health data breaches due to simple theft, not hacking: JAMA
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/keep-calm-and-encrypt-your-data-5.png” thumb_width=”150″ /] Criminal activity is the cause of nearly 6 out of 10 data breaches, according to a study published in JAMA last week (subscription required). Cyberbreaches–the infamous hacking attacks–produce breaches in the millions, but the far more typical and frequent breach, if smaller, is caused by simple theft of records–electronic and paper. HealthLeaders We’ve reported previously that stolen records (over 500) have ranged from laptops to paper records as landfill and even old-style X-rays in dead storage sought after for mercury content. So if Hackermania is not always running wild, except when it is, how to keep... Continue Reading
The hypealicious, hyperluxus Apple Watch debut–what the healtherati are interested in
...and we hope for rare/orphan conditions could be major. Adam Estes in Gizmodo gets Gimlety on the privacy concerns, databases on databases and the hacking potential. (Parkinson’s app: TNW) How these iPhone apps will interface with the Watch, and how the Watch itself develops unique aspects of health tracking, will be breathlessly speculated on by the healthdigerati. Right now, Press Eyes are on Apple Breaking the Sound Barrier to be a $1 trillion company. The Guardian does a fine job of summarizing the Android smartwatch ‘feh’ to date with about 7 million (mainly Pebbles) shipped. Yet analysts estimate 8-40 million... Continue Reading
Moving past the hype on mobile, wearables for consumer health
...quite sure you'd also get a very different answer from their carers eg. look at this BBC profile of the dexcom and try and appreciate the personal expense and effort a paramedic mother has gone to simply monitor her daughters BG levels while attending school: http://mhealthinsight.com/2015/02/09/the-bbc-reports-on-how-parents-are-so-fed-up-with-unconnected-care-that-theyre-hacking-the-medical-devices-being-used-by-their-children/ Monique Levy Hi both - thank you for the thorough article and comment. These are complex and layered topics that are hard to have via comments made at a conference for Beginner Pharma Marketers. A few thoughts that may help clarify and add: 1. The context of the comments that mobile is primarily used... Continue Reading
Hackermania running wild, 2015 edition
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hackermania.jpg” thumb_width=”300″ /] Do we need the Hulkster Running Wild against Hacking? It’s so heartwarming to see the mainstream press catch up to what your Editors have been whinging on for the past few years: that healthcare data is the Emperor With No Clothes. Here we have Reuters and the New York Times with a case of the vapors, seeking a fainting couch. Reuters dubs 2015 ‘The year of the healthcare hack’. The FBI is investigating the AnthemHealth breach, while their counterparts UnitedHealth, Cigna and Aetna are in full, breathless damage control mode. The Times at least delves into... Continue Reading
Dr Topol’s prescription for The Future of Medicine, analyzed
...tested, and that is one reason why emerging from whiz-bangdom is actually good for devices. One of my predictions for 2015 (to come) will be that certain tools will begin to make real inroads, for instance remote wound management, tele-psychiatry, virtual wellness visits and remote supervision of home care. And Dr T agrees with our Editors’ POVs here when stating “All of this raises serious issues about hacking and personal privacy that haven’t yet been addressed—and the accuracy of all of these tools needs to be tested. People are also right to worry that the patient-doctor relationship could be eroded,... Continue Reading
Data mining health records: the good, bad and ugly
...brain tumor radiology where sizing is critical (BraTumIA) and individualized genomics for disease. Yet the author does not touch on healthcare decision support systems best exemplified by IBM Watson, or consumer-driven analytics related to fitness and self-monitoring of vital signs. It seems to this Editor that other positive examples were edited out in favor of rounding up the usual suspects such as privacy invasions and hacking, plus unnecessary digressions (was a reference to the Google self-driving car really necessary?), and the lack of a critical eye on musings such as’“It would be great if when the patient walked in our... Continue Reading
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