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Would ‘Medicare for All’ help secure health data?

November 26, 2019 0 Comments adam kujawa, amca, american medical collection agency, blue cross blue shield, breaches, cms, Cybercrime, department of health and human services, dominion national, Electronic Frontier Foundation, gao, Government, government accountability office, healthcare, healthcare.gov, heatlhcare, hhs, insurance, interoperability, malwarebytes, malwarebytes labs, medicare for all, online privacy act of 2019, os inc, prema blue cross, Privacy, security world, solara medical supplies, spectrum health lakeland, third-party services, wolverine solutions group

Credit to Author: Adam Kujawa| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:30:10 +0000

Beyond the usual arguments on this subject, we wanted to ask the question: Are there any security risks we need to be worried about if the United States were to switch to ‘Healthcare for All’ policies?

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Study: Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks

November 7, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, department of health and human services, hhs, leo scanlon, owen graduate school of management, pbs, The Coming Storm, the new england journal of medicine, vanderbilt university, WannaCry

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:48:03 +0000

Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits. Health industry experts say the findings should prompt a larger review of how security — or the lack thereof — may be impacting patient outcomes.