...and end to end security for a digital society in Central London, hosted by Gemalto. eCall, the emergency call system that is activated by a vehicle involved in a crash, is already installed in 0.7% of vehicles in the EU. As most accidents involve more than one vehicle, presumably utilisation will be ahead of the 0.7% figure though, so there is hope for the projected 2,500 lives saved/year and the alleviation of the severity of road injuries sustained in 15% of cases, when adoption is more widespread. (In addition to the number of injuries, road traffic accidents in the EU... Continue Reading
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A five-point rebuttal to ‘Accelerometers, false positives/negatives and fall detection’
...they have a fall detector they should press the button. They know they have to press the button because during install and the set-up call, we have them push the button multiple times. When it comes to the woman in Massachusetts, I’d ask Lifeline what’s included their on boarding protocols. The #1 reason why people don’t press their button is because they are afraid EMS will show up at their door which happens without a Call Center intermediary. 90 percent of the time a person presses their button, it’s for a non-emergency. 4) False Sense of Security: If people feel... Continue Reading
Accelerometers, false positives/negatives and fall detection
...make it clear that elderly people will have to live independently in their own homes for as long as possible. You just can’t provide residential care for 20 percent of the population. Smartphones and wearable technology have the potential to dramatically improve eldercare. A relatively cheap smartphone can track activity and location. Modern platforms analyze the data in real-time over the internet and can, in theory, immediately spot when something is wrong and raise an alert. The theory doesn’t always work however. As devices and apps hit the market, we’re gradually seeing what works and what doesn’t. It turns out... Continue Reading
41 percent of healthcare employees don’t encrypt mobile devices: Forrester
...stolen devices. (What, not mulch?) Author Chris Sherman also quoted street prices for health records to The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal blog (subscription required): $20 for one health record to $500 for a patient’s complete record. He recommends greater use of encryption and penalties for non-compliance with safe computing. FierceMobileHealthcare, iHealthBeat. Previously in TTA on data breaches: Data breaches may cost healthcare organizations $5.6 bn annually: Ponemon; Risky hospital business: happy device hacking, insider data breaches; The drip of data breaches now a flood: 4.5 million records hacked–update; Data breaches and ‘hackermania’ running wild; ‘Hackermania running wild,’ part 2... Continue Reading
Yesterday’s Apple intros and implications for health monitoring
Kenyon Crowley Interested to see what happens with Apple's entry into the wearables market. Unclear how health apps will be effective and seamless since Apple just banned health data storage in iCloud and are revising the developer toolkit .... No easy health data integration for health apps means less useful potential.... Continue Reading
Breaking news on the Apple phones & smartwatch
Breaking News from the CNet live coverage moving along in real time: New iPhone 6 phones are both retina display. Phablet is 5.5″ screen (iPhone 6 Plus) and standard is 4.7″ Big play on NFC-driven mobile payments: Apple Pay at 220,000 locations, via 83 percent of US banks plus American Express (international?) Security: Eddy Cue, senior vice president of Internet software and services–We’ve integrated security from software and hardware. We create a device only account number and put it in the Secure Element. No longer have the static code on the back of the card. One time only use and... Continue Reading
Data breaches and ‘hackermania’ running wild
Data breaches remain in the news–and the debate around how best to secure data rages. Everything old is new again. UK website Computing reported that East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust lost a data cartridge containing 42,000 records from its divisional headquarters in Nottingham. It was a small but deadly cartridge containing scanned handwritten copies of Patient Report Forms from September to November 2012. However, it can only be read on a now-obsolete cartridge reader, one of which is on the Trust’s premises. An interesting project for a ‘cracker’? Perhaps someone thought it was an old paperweight? Is this the... Continue Reading
Forced to wear a fitness tracker for insurance? (US)
For those covered by corporate health policies, the day is not far away where employee health insurance programs will require wearing a fitness tracker and meeting certain metrics, such as walking a million steps or sleep quality. Already some programs have the employee log food, exercise, blood glucose, heart rate and other vital signs to qualify for a discount. The trajectory is much like BYOD–once unheard of, now it is expected to be the norm in 50 percent of US companies by 2017, with a concomitant loss of personal security and privacy. CVS Caremark and other companies have already made... Continue Reading
CHS data breach estimated price tag: $150 million
...what is to say that these ‘former hackers’ aren’t playing both games? Cybersecurity’s hiring crisis: A troubling trajectory (ZDNet) The C-Suite Must Care…The Workforce Must Be Aware Since data security and data breaches threaten to swamp many sectors (universities and colleges, even more than healthcare, rank as the most vulnerable), the solution may not be wholly in the code. Daniel J Solove, a professor of law at George Washington University Law School and CEO of TeachPrivacy, takes a different look at how organizations should respond and identifies the two most important things to prevent data breaches with the catch-phrase above,... Continue Reading
FBI ‘Flash Alerts’ health organizations about hacker attacks (US)
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/keep-calm-and-encrypt-your-data-5.png” thumb_width=”150″ /]Late yesterday Reuters reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a ‘flash alert’ to healthcare organizations, warning they are being targeted by “…malicious actors targeting healthcare related systems, perhaps for the purpose of obtaining Protected Healthcare Information (PHI) and/or Personally Identifiable Information (PII),” and that “These actors have also been seen targeting multiple companies in the healthcare and medical device industry typically targeting valuable intellectual property, such as medical device and equipment development data.” These alerts are sent to businesses by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to help prevent cyberattacks. This follows... Continue Reading
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