Defending online privacy in healthcare

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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[By Bertalan Mesko MD PhD]

An overwhelming majority of healthcare organizations have been victims of cyber-attacks. As digital health spreads from wearable devices on our body to implantables inside it, cyber threats can become painfully real.

What can we do to protect against them today?

According to studies by PWC and the SANS Institute, 94% of healthcare organizations have been victims of a cyber-attack. As we use more and more devices from smartphones to wearable sensors, your online privacy can have a very real impact on our health and well-being. When hacked, even simple wearables can yield private information about our vital signs and reveal personal health problems and insight into our habits (like when we regularly go running) that’s best kept from the public eye. More threatening are the findings of security researchers who managed to prove that a deadly overdose of medication could be administered remotely via a vulnerability in certain insulin pumps.
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Assessment

Let’s see some other dangers facing our health information, and a few easy tips you can use to boost your privacy levels quickly. Arxan recently surveyed trends and dangers threatening the privacy of healthcare data.

Conclusion

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3 Responses

  1. Noah, on June 23, 2016 at 12:11 PM said:

    Watch Your PC/Phone/Tablet Camera and Mic!

    The taped-over camera and microphone jack are usually a signal that someone is concerned, perhaps only vaguely, about hackers’ gaining access to his or her devices by using remote-access trojans — a process called “ratting.”

    Remote access is not limited to ratters: According to a cache of National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden, at least two government-designed programs were devised to take over computer cameras and microphones.

    Noah

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  2. Editor, on March 6, 2018 at 8:12 PM said:

    NOPE,

    Accenture recently released results from a survey on healthcare employee attitudes toward confidential data. Here are some key findings from the report:

    • 18% of health employees said they would be willing to sell confidential data.
    • Respondents willing to sell data would do so for as little as $500-$1,000.
    • 21% from provider versus 12% from payer organizations would sell data.
    • 1 in 4 know of someone in their organization who has sold access to an outsider.
    • 21% keep their user name and password written down next to their computer.
    • 9 in 10 respondents said that their organization provides security training.

    Source: Accenture, March 1, 2018

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  3. Editor, on April 10, 2018 at 7:29 PM said:

    Total Information Awareness

    (TIA) was a program of the United States Information Awareness Office that began during the 2003 fiscal year. It operated under this title from February until May 2003, before being renamed as the Terrorism Information Awareness.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

    Ann Miller RN MHA

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