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Walgreen Customer Email Listing Has Unauthorized Access So Be Watchful of Potential Spam Emails

How hot is marketing in healthcare, hot enough to where folks are poaching for email addresses and the usual attempts for identify theft. Walgreens said no personal information as far as passwords or account numbers were hacked so it’s just the...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 7:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, privacy, Email, information, Walgreens, breaches, drug stores, spam mail, personal data, spammers

Hospital and Healthcare Computer Security – Former Hacker for Hire in Southern California

When it comes to security you can’t take too many precautions. This article from the LA Times talks about someone who used to be on the other side who now is unleashed by his employer to see if your system can be hacked. The scary thing in...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2009 11:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Computers, healthcare, Security, identity theft, breaches, hacking, networks

Push For Electronic Medical Records Must Slow Down - Howard Schmidt, Former White House Security Czar Advises for Secure Applications

This is in fact a good question, are we rushing to get the money available and perhaps pushing matters a bit to fast. I post enough security breach stories on here that somewhat encourages me to agree with the basis of this. Having written...

Published Fri, May 05 2009 11:56 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Security, Programming, encryption, breaches, ARRA, cybersecurity, HITECH

One New Dumping Ground in Texas for Paper Medical Records - Goodwill

For some reason, this keeps happening. For some strange reason, the word shredder pops into my mind. It seems to appear that folks don’t want to take the time to shred? Anyway, what would Goodwill do with the information or perhaps was...

Published Wed, May 05 2009 11:02 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, breaches, Goodwill

Healthcare Records are not alone with breaches - Air Traffic Software also on the list of being hacked routinely

If one were involved in an aircraft accident this could certainly have an effect on your health. In the news this week are 2 healthcare breaches, one in Virginia and one in California. According to this article, there is also a lack of budgeting...

Published Sat, May 05 2009 1:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, Medical Records, Security, FBI, Data, breaches, hacker, MSDN. SQL Injection, FAA, aviation

Would Someone Give the Hacker 10 Million for Prescription Information In Virginia – We have already been for Sale for quite a while now..

The information on prescriptions may not hold a lot of merit for a monetary return; however, additional information compromised could, such as social security numbers as well as credit card accounts. There are a couple of firms who have been...

Published Fri, May 05 2009 4:15 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Security, USB drives, FBI, Data, Records, encryption, breaches, medical nightmare

USB Memory Stick Round 2 – More Medical Record Information on a Lost Drive

In case you missed it last week, read round 1. I don’t know why these drives are not put on lock down through Group Policy when it comes to medical record information. I lecture physicians myself all the time about this issue. Hospitals...

Published Tue, May 05 2009 2:11 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Security, USB drives, FBI, Data, Records, encryption, breaches, medical nightmare

The Hackers Could Possibly push the move for PHRs – Medical Records Hacked in Virginia Department of Health Professions computers

When all else fails, your PHR could stand to be a back up. This is a strange case though as the extortion note says he wants to sell the medication information, well a lot of that has already been sold anyway by pharmacy benefit managers to insurance...

Published Tue, May 05 2009 4:17 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, Security, Personal Health Records, FBI, Data, breaches, Virginia, hacker

Former IT Director pleads guilty – Breaking in and Deleting Organ Donation Database Information

This is one of those “revenge” stories that really should not have taken place, but all too often when an IT employee either leaves or is dismissed, there are still avenues for access, such as this one tried to find. She broke in remotely and from home...

Published Tue, May 05 2009 12:29 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, database, Health IT, Hospitals, Non Profit, breaches, Texas, Organ Donations

Security tightened over data loss – Flash Drives Can be One of HealthCare’s Biggest Nightmares

This even happened in the UK, but it can happen anywhere. I have seen it here, flash drives lost containing patient information, and sometimes not encrypted either. Most of the manufacturers today include a menu whereby information can be...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 2:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, Security, DOD, Flash Drives, malware, computer virus, antigen, breaches

Keeping Private Health Data Private - "Inadvertent Disclosures" with Peer to Peer Networks

This is a video well worth watching as he explains how peer to peer software can lead to problems and data on the web that should not be there. When finding data on the web, sometimes things are mistaken as a full on “breach” when in fact it is...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2009 5:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, privacy, Health IT, Security, Heatlhcare, Data, breaches, peer to peer networks, VPN

Education not Fear is Needed with Medical Health Records

I read this article and it really made little or no sense. Audit trails, all healthcare programs pretty much have these and years ago when I was writing my EMR program for a medical office, it had audit trails, so some of the comments here are a...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 8:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, Hospital, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Security, Heatlhcare, encryption, breaches

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