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On Cyber Attacks
[By Bertran Mesko, MD PhD]
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.
HIT Dangers
Let’s see the dangers facing our health information, and a few easy tips you can use to boost your privacy levels quickly.
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The dangers facing healthcare privacy
Assessment
Arxan recently surveyed trends and dangers threatening the privacy of healthcare data.
Conclusion
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