From the report: On December 9, 2013, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (OIPC) and the B.C. Ministry of Health (MoH) convened a meeting of 38 representatives from the health research community and its stakeholders in British Columbia. The attendees were invited to come together to discuss and seek solutions…
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NHS admits new medical records database could pose privacy risk
Laura Donnelly writes: Patient confidentiality could be undermined by the new medical records database, the NHS’s own risk analysis has warned. The controversial database could be vulnerable to hackers or could be used to identify patients “maliciously”, the document, seen by The Telegraph, states. It says the scheme could damage public confidence in the NHS…
If you've never thought about this before…
Do you post information about any of your diagnoses or medications you take on Facebook or Twitter or in other public spaces on the Internet? If so, you may be giving criminals a valuable piece of information that they can use to con you out of your personal information for identity theft.
LA: Former Covington chiropractor charged with health care fraud and identity theft by federal grand jury
Heather Nolan reports: A former Covington chiropractor has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 30 counts of health care fraud and four counts of aggravated identity theft, according to U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite Jr. David Lee Killen, 42, is accused of submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers, Polite’s office said in a news release…
Vendors aren't interested in cybersecurity, medtech hacker says
Arezu Sarvestani reports: Cybersecurity expert and medical device hacker Florian Grunow has faced more hurdles than help in trying to get medical device companies interested in putting security measures into their network-connected devices, he told an audience at last year’s European DeepSec conference. Vendors aren’t thinking about security and they’re not interested in discussing it…
Update: Does Dentrix need to send individual notification letters rescinding its "encryption" claim?
As regular readers may recall, I had raised some concerns about Henry Schein Dental claiming its Dentrix G5 product provided “encryption” after NIST had declared in 2013 that it wasn’t encryption but only weak data obfuscation. And I was pleased when Dentrix reconsidered their position after my blog post and decided to re-brand G5 as providing…