Obviously there’s a political agenda here, but it’s curious I hadn’t heard about any breach until I read this press release. There is no notice on the Ontario PSW site concerning any breach: Concerns and questions are mounting over the lack of provincial government action and oversight following a serious security breach at an employer-run…
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…
IL: Laptop Containing Patient Information Stolen From SIU (updated)
WICS reports: A laptop containing personal information of 1,891 SIU [Southern Illinois University] HealthCare patients is presumed stolen. The computer, which belonged to a former SIU orthopedic surgeon, was discovered missing from a locked office on October 15. SIU HealthCare said today that certain personal and medical information of 1,891 patients was contained on the laptop….
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…
Chinese hackers leak 20 million hotel guests’ data on WeChat
Patrick Boehler of the South China Morning Post reports: Hackers in China have leaked a database of an estimated 20 million hotel reservations on multiple websites and even WeChat, the wildly popular messaging service, reflecting failed government efforts to prevent massive leaks of personal data. Online security watchdog WooYun said in September that hackers had…
National American University students’ financial information exposed, but what laws protect them?
Joe O’Sullivan reports: When National American University moved from one Rapid City campus to a new location earlier this year, the school or a contractor appears to have improperly disposed of thousands of sensitive student financial records that included names, addresses, loan numbers and Social Security numbers, according to documents reviewed by the Rapid City…