 The shift to electronic health records, information exchanges and data mining promises to improve patient care, but often it's happening without our knowledge, and consumer watchdogs fear our medical histories could fall into the wrong hands.
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Your doctor’s office likely doesn’t have any digital security for its mammography machines, heart pumps and other devices that are vulnerable to hacking, according to a new study.
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There are few things as creepy in online marketing as digging into someone’s health history, without their knowledge, to advertise to them. Yet that’s precisely what New York-based Epic Marketplace is accused of doing.
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Arnold Salinas knows a lot about the person who stole his identity.
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Two years ago, Latanya Sweeney created a graphic on the widespread sharing of medical files that shocked lawmakers, technologists and doctors.
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Wireless medical devices are potentially vulnerable to being remotely controlled by hackers and should be tracked more closely, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
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As more patient records go digital, a recent hacker attack on a small medical practice shows the big risks involved with electronic files.
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Hacker Shows Off Lethal Attack By Controlling Wireless Medical Device
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If your credit card is stolen, it may take a few minutes on the phone with the bank to reverse the fraudulent charges.
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Health exchanges have stirred controversy. In some cases, they include data without patients' consent, and privacy advocates fret that some exchanges may lose or even sell personal information.
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As hospitals digitize patient records and amass huge amounts of data, many are relying on companies such as Microsoft, SAS Institute Inc., International Business Machines Corp. and Oracle Corp., whose data-mining technologies can help them detect patterns and improve medical care.
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Medical providers are breached more than any other type of organization, including retailers and government agencies, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit consumer rights group.
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Answers to questions about health information exchanges from what data is excluded to what is done with your personal information.
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Here are 10 scenarios where medical records could be stolen -- some you might have expected, while others could be surprising.
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Indiana isn’t usually considered a hub of technological innovation. However, about 2,000 miles from Silicon Valley, it has solved a problem that has flummoxed even high-tech states like California.
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More on Putting Patient Privacy at Risk
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More than 80 percent of hospitals have yet to achieve the requirements for the first stage of a $14.6 billion U.S. program to encourage doctors to adopt electronic medical records, the industry’s largest trade group said.
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Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc, an electronic-health records provider, plunged the most in more than three years after its chairman was fired in a board dispute and three directors resigned in protest.
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Insufficient funding and lack of executive support are mainly responsible for security breaches involving patients’ electronic health records, a study found.
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Hospitals would have to show they’ve amassed the vital statistics of more than 80 percent of their patients in digital form, among other targets, to continue collecting as much as $14.6 billion in federal grants for installing electronic records technology sold by General Electric Co. and smaller suppliers.
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Two years after Sun Microsystems Inc.’s sale to Oracle Corp. ended his run as one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent chief executive officers, Jonathan Schwartz announced the debut of CareZone, a startup website that lets family members and health-care workers share information about aging or ill parents, spouses and children.
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