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'Wall of Shame' Exposes 21M Medical Record Breaches
Lucas123 writes "Over the past three years, about 21 million patients have had their unencrypted medical records exposed in data security breaches that were big enough to require they be reported to the federal government. Each of the 477 breaches that were reported to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) involved 500 or more patients, which the government posts on what the industry calls 'The Wall of Shame.' About 55,000 other breach reports involving fewer than 500 records where also reported to the OCR. Among the largest breaches reported was TRICARE Management Activity, the Department of Defense's health care program, which reported 4.9 million records lost when backup tapes went missing. Another five breaches involved 1 million or more records each. Yet, only two of the organizations involved in the breaches have been fined by the federal government."
Now that the US government is taking over healthcare this problem will disappear!
No, No, No - you have it all wrong.
Say $100K for the drives, another 50K for the 'Enterprise Level' software, another 100K for labor.
The other 5.5 million for upper level executive compensation.
Thinking this stuff through is hard.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
It usually takes three people to give me three different wrong answers.
That's grossly inefficient... in some of the places I worked, I only needed a single person (my manager) to get 3 different wrong answers.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
I beat the system by having no significant medical records in the last 10 years :P One finger X-ray (no break, yay) and like 2 appointments for allergies. Good luck blackmailing me with that, lol. I just stay exceptionally healthy. Take that, hackers! lol.