I work with smaller doctor offices and their EHR"s. Let me tell you that you all should be terrified with how they run most of their systems. I can't tell you how many docs keep simple passwords and tell their whole staff. Worst is if you get physical access to the office, it's plastered everywhere.
Most have a basic setup with windows firewalls and cheap antivirus. None of that matters when the docs or their staff abuse their systems and go just about everywhere on the computers..
Basically, I am just waiting for the day when I come in and our offices are hacked. Hell many of them could have it happen and they wouldn't know unless they threw a virus on their way out.
This is great except each insurance now interprets the standard differently. Medicare requires one interpretation, and private another. Don't get me started on the state medaids. They are still requiring taxonomy codes, which were made illegal in 2006 with the NPI. For some reason medicaid is not covered under these new laws. It is a mess. I know because I work for a company that sells a program to submit these electronic claim files.
Small doctors offices are ripe for this. The software they use is a joke. Their security is horrendous. Easy to find sql passwords. Entire health claims stored in plain text. Claim files being sent via modem transmissions. Doctors that refuse to update their software or windows environment because they are cheap... List goes on.
I worked at Best buy as a tech for over a year. We basically ran virus scan, spyware scans and when it got too bad we reformatted. We would also install hard drives and run o/s discs on them. Oh and we ran diag software that was useless, oh and it was not licensed either:)
I would often get in trouble for going outside the norm and actually spending time on a computer. I was run out because I refused to sell people extra crap they didnt need. I left because it was a sales job for low end techies who can install a hard drive as well as put in an o/s disk (whoopie that's hard!) The thing they look for the most is the ability to sell sell sell. Its a sales department that can half assed diagnose to sell for stuff. Oh you have spyware, let me sell you spysweeper!
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I work with smaller doctor offices and their EHR"s. Let me tell you that you all should be terrified with how they run most of their systems. I can't tell you how many docs keep simple passwords and tell their whole staff. Worst is if you get physical access to the office, it's plastered everywhere. Most have a basic setup with windows firewalls and cheap antivirus. None of that matters when the docs or their staff abuse their systems and go just about everywhere on the computers.. Basically, I am just waiting for the day when I come in and our offices are hacked. Hell many of them could have it happen and they wouldn't know unless they threw a virus on their way out.
This is great except each insurance now interprets the standard differently. Medicare requires one interpretation, and private another. Don't get me started on the state medaids. They are still requiring taxonomy codes, which were made illegal in 2006 with the NPI. For some reason medicaid is not covered under these new laws. It is a mess. I know because I work for a company that sells a program to submit these electronic claim files.
The exploding rocket of nuclear waste could be a big deal. Talk about your priority terrorist targets...
I have never understood why we keep nuclear waste on the planet. Why not send it into the sun? It would be like sending a BB at a freight train.
I work with BCBS, they are idiots. It usually takes three people to give me three different wrong answers. It probably took 10 people per hard drive.
Small doctors offices are ripe for this. The software they use is a joke. Their security is horrendous. Easy to find sql passwords. Entire health claims stored in plain text. Claim files being sent via modem transmissions. Doctors that refuse to update their software or windows environment because they are cheap... List goes on.
I worked at Best buy as a tech for over a year. We basically ran virus scan, spyware scans and when it got too bad we reformatted. We would also install hard drives and run o/s discs on them. Oh and we ran diag software that was useless, oh and it was not licensed either :)
I would often get in trouble for going outside the norm and actually spending time on a computer. I was run out because I refused to sell people extra crap they didnt need. I left because it was a sales job for low end techies who can install a hard drive as well as put in an o/s disk (whoopie that's hard!) The thing they look for the most is the ability to sell sell sell. Its a sales department that can half assed diagnose to sell for stuff. Oh you have spyware, let me sell you spysweeper!