The L.A. Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center has begun notifying individuals after an attack on their system may have compromised personal, medical, and credit card information. According to the LAGLCSC’s notification to California, the attack occurred between September 17 and November 8 and was confirmed between November 22 and December 3. In a letter…
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San Francisco Doctor Accepts Bitcoin to Protect Patient Privacy
Kadhim Shubber reports: A doctor and former programmer is using bitcoin’s revolutionary payment system as a new way to protect his patients’ privacy. Earlier this year, Dr Paul Abramson’s private practice, My Doctor Medical Group in San Francisco, began allowing patients to pay for their care with bitcoin. The decision has meant that people who want to keep their…
New mobile healthcare app to track medications and refills seeking beta-testers
A Greenville-based company, Apothesource, is seeking prospective beta-testers for a new mobile application called ‘Pill-Fill’. Pill-Fill™ takes an entirely new approach to managing medications, doctors and pharmacies. The app manages and consolidates all of this information for its users automatically. In as little as 30 seconds, Pill-Fill builds an always up-to-date list of the most important and personalized healthcare…
Tracking System Prepares New York to Evacuate Patients in Emergencies
Jessica Hughes reports: Just more than one year after Hurricane Sandy’s waters flooded the northeast, cutting power and forcing more than 7,000 patients and residents at hospitals and nursing homes to evacuate, New York state demonstrated that it can now track those vulnerable citizens during the next big storm. A demo in mid-November at a…
Feds not required to report security breaches of Obamacare exchange website
Eric Boehm writes: Americans who buy health insurance through the federal Obamacare exchange website could have their personal information stolen by hackers and never even know it. Most of the state-run health exchange websites will be covered by state laws that require notification when government databases are breached by hackers. But there is no law requiring notification…
Maternity hospital probed for data leaks
Cai Wenjun reports: The Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission said yesterday that it was investigating staff at Fengxian District Central Hospital, which reportedly sold personal information of pregnant women. The commission said hospitals must protect patients’ privacy and it will reveal the results of investigation soon. A woman who delivered a baby girl at…