Dentistry’s SECRET!

Posted on October 4, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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“Small- and medium-sized businesses with two to 200 employees suffered the most attacks during the period, accounting for 46%, or 2,300 ransomware attacks total, according to the report.” That’s us, Doc. Patterson and Schein won’t admit it, but if you don’t put patients’ information on a computer, you and your patients are completely safe from ransomware.

“US organizations hit by almost half of all ransomware since 2020 – American exceptionalism extends to ransomware as organizations based in the U.S. suffered the greatest number of attacks, ahead of Canada and the U.K.”

By Matt Kapko: Cybersecurity Dive, Sept. 28, 2022.

Paper’s security – “Report: 90% of companies affected by ransomware in 2022 – An annual SpyCloud survey found that 90% of organizations were impacted by ransomware over the past twelve months, an alarming increase from last year’s 72.5%.”

– Yet still none involved paper dental records –

Report: 90% of companies affected by ransomware in 2022

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Dictionary of Health Information Technology and Security

Posted on October 2, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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What is a CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK, Doctor?

Posted on October 1, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

CDNs and What They Mean to Physicians

BY J.M.

[Anonymous IT Expert]

DOCTOR – Do you like the internet? Do you use EMRs/EHRs? Do you like fast internet? Of course you do.

But, without a strong infrastructure of content delivery networks (CDNs), website loading times would be too slow to stream tele-health/tele-medicine visits or tela-radiology services; not to mention Netflix, or argue with Reddit strangers or your patients; etc.

CDNs are geographically distributed networks of servers that handle processing and speed up internet delivery. In practice, CDNs make website content like HTML pages, JavaScript files, style-sheets, images, and videos load faster. They also reduce bandwidth costs, handle more traffic, and provide a little security protection.

CDNs don’t actually host web content, but instead keep cached versions of it at the ready in edge servers.

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How CDN Works? How to Find the Cheapest CDN Provider?

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Fastly is one of a number of significant CDN providers that help form the infrastructure of the internet. And while the outage shows the breadth of its reach, it’s far from the biggest player—Akami, Cloudflare, and Amazon CloudFront take up 75% of revenue in CDN space, per Intricately.

But Fastly, one of the world’s largest cloud computing companies itself, just had an outage that shut down its CDN service, affecting major websites including the New York Times, HBO Max, and the British government’s homepage.

ASSESSMENT: Were you or your clinic or hospital affected? Your thoughts and comments are appreciated.

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FINED: Wall $treet Financial Firms

Posted on September 29, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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Wall Street HIT with $2 billion in fines!

The three-martini lunch may dwindle to two after a dozen of the largest finance firms agreed to pay more than two billion dollars to settle probes from the SEC and CFTC.

Those regulators claimed that the banks failed to adequately manage employee communication.

And, for the second time in a decade, Regions Bank was found to have charged illegal overdraft fees, the government in a settlement that will require the bank to repay $141 million to customers and pay an additional $50 million in fees.

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What is Financial – Tech?

Posted on September 29, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

The Definition of Fin-Tech

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By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA

Fintech is a portmanteau of financial technology that describes an emerging financial services sector in the 21st century.

Originally, the term applied to technology applied to the back-end of established consumer and trade financial institutions. Since the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the term has expanded to include any technological innovation in the financial sector, including innovations in financial literacy and education, retail banking, investment and even crypto-currencies like bitcoin.

BREAKING DOWN ‘Fintech’

The term financial technology can apply to any innovation in how people transact business, from the invention of money to double-entry bookkeeping. Since the internet revolution and the mobile internet revolution, however, financial technology has grown explosively, and fintech, which originally referred to computer technology applied to the back office of banks or trading firms, now describes a broad variety of technological interventions into personal and commercial finance.

Fintech’s Expanding Horizons

Already technological innovation has up-ended 20th century ways of trading and banking. The mobile-only stock trading app Robinhood charges no fees for trades, and peer-to-peer lending sites like Prosper and Lending Club promise to reduce rates by opening up competition for loans to broad market forces. Technologies being designed that should reach fruition by 2020 include mobile banking, mobile trading on commodities exchanges, digital wallets (like Apple (AAPL) and Google’s (GOOG) developing mobile wallet systems), financial advisory and robo-advisor sites like LearnVest and Betterment, and all-in-one money management tools like Mint and Level.

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New Tech in Fintech

In the olden days, individuals and institutions used the invisible hand of the market – represented by the signaling function of price – to make financial decisions. New technologies, like machine learning, predictive behavioral analytics and data-driven marketing, will take the guess work and hocus pocus out of financial decisions. “Learning” apps will not only learn the habits of users, often hidden to themselves, but will engage users in learning games to make their automatic, unconscious spending and saving decisions better. On the back end, improved data analytics will help institutional clients further refine their investment decisions and open new opportunities for financial innovation.

Fintech Users

Who uses fintech? There are four broad categories: 1) B2B for banks and 2) their business clients; and 3) B2C for small businesses and 4) consumers. Trends toward mobile banking, increased information, data and more accurate analytics and decentralization of access will create opportunities for all four groups to interact in heretofore unprecedented ways.

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PODCAST: On Replacing Doctors with Computers and Smart Phones

Posted on September 28, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

Eric Topol on Replacing Clinicians with Algorithms

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP™

[Editor-in-Chief]

Recently, I wrote an ME-P questioning the need for a medical license in order to treat patients.

Boy, did I receive unkind private comments and phone calls on that op-ed piece!

The idea was not my own and, in fact, was proposed more than a decade ago by Shirley Svorny PhD, chairwoman of the economics department at California State University, Northridge. She holds a PhD in economics from UCLA

Her simple rationale was that licensure may be a barrier to competition and hence health care.

Link: Will Future Doctors Need a Medical License?

Enter Dr. Topol

Now, we learn that Eric Topol MD, Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and [Editor-in-Chief of Medscape] is questioning whether doctors will be replaced by algorithms. He cites dermatology, optometry and pediatrics as first-mover smart-phone applications.

The idea was really precipitated by Vinod Khosla at the Rock Health Program on Health Innovation, when he said that 80% of doctors are going to be replaced by algorithms [Pareto’s rule].

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And so, please enjoy this video presentation of Eric as he describes his healthcare vision of the future.

Link: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/805212?src=wnl_edit_specol&uac=193200AX

Assessment

Of course, this flies in the face of all those projections about hundreds of thousands of doctor shortages over the next 10 years because of the Baby Boomer problem, the aging of the population, as well as the chronic disease burden.

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PODCAST: United Health Group Acquisition of “Change Healthcare”

Posted on September 27, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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What is Cyber-Security SPOOFING and PHISHING?

Posted on September 23, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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Spoofing

Spoofing is when someone disguises an email address, sender name, phone number, or website URL—often just by changing one letter, symbol, or number—to convince you that you are interacting with a trusted source.

For example, you might receive an email that looks like it’s from your boss, a company you’ve done business with, or even from someone in your family—but it actually isn’t.

Criminals count on being able to manipulate you into believing that these spoofed communications are real, which can lead you to download malicious software, send money, or disclose personal, financial, or other sensitive information.

Phishing

Phishing schemes often use spoofing techniques to lure you in and get you to take the bait. These scams are designed to trick you into giving information to criminals that they shouldn’t have access to.

In a phishing scam, you might receive an email that appears to be from a legitimate business and is asking you to update or verify your personal information by replying to the email or visiting a website. The web address might look similar to one you’ve used before. The email may be convincing enough to get you to take the action requested.

But once you click on that link, you’re sent to a spoofed website that might look nearly identical to the real thing—like your bank or credit card site—and asked to enter sensitive information like passwords, credit card numbers, banking PINs, etc. These fake websites are used solely to steal your information.

Phishing has evolved and now has several variations that use similar techniques:

Vishing scams happen over the phone, voice email, or VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) calls.
Smishing scams happen through SMS (text) messages.
Pharming scams happen when malicious code is installed on your computer to redirect you to fake websites.

Spoofing and phishing are key parts of business email compromise scams.

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What is the HODL Crypto-Currency Investing Strategy?

Posted on September 21, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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In the cryptocurrency world, people who HODL are usually inexperienced traders but who have a lot of faith in the future of Bitcoin. These traders believe that one day, Bitcoin will become a mainstream currency with a six-figure value. That is why they can’t risk losing any of their investments for short-term trading gratifications. These traders argue that given Bitcoin’s limited supply, the price will always rise as fewer and fewer coins remain in circulation and more investors and institutions recognize it as a store of value.

In a nutshell, HODL is now used to describe an investing strategy where investors are discouraged from trading based on short-term price swings. The approach basically stems from the rationale that inexperienced traders are more likely to lose their investment in short-term trading since they cannot correctly read and interpret vital signals. The safest approach for them, therefore, is to simply HODL and wait until their investments become highly profitable when the price goes up. Hodling can also help traders avoid two common mistakes in the cryptocurrency market. These are:

The Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) that can cause traders to buy high
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) that can cause traders to sell low, also known as SODling.

Hodlers believe that cryptocurrencies will someday supplant fiat currencies and become insanely valuable. They, ideally, do not believe in exchanging cryptocurrencies for traditional money.

There is one popular meme that perfectly captures this maximalist philosophy. The meme is a satirical version of the Matrix Movie where Neo asks Orpheus “ “What are you trying to tell me, that I can trade my bitcoin for millions someday?” and Orpheus responds, “No Neo, I’m trying to tell you that when you’re ready … you won’t have to.”

That, according to Hodlers, means that a time will come when you won’t have to sell your Bitcoin for fiat money because there won’t be any fiat money but only Bitcoin.

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PODCASTS: Signify Health Stock Market Debut

Posted on September 21, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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PODCAST: HEALTHCARE NFTs [How to Monitize Health Data?]

Posted on September 21, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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NFTs IN HEALTHCARE: HOW PATIENTS COULD MONETISE THEIR HEALTH DATA

Personal health sensors and apps equip patients with personalised data so that they can become more proactive in managing their health. But what is still mostly the norm is that these sensitive data are governed by the companies providing these services; and they often profit out of it, oblivious to patients.

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How NFTs will revolutionize medicine - YouTube

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But even though NFTs are still in their infancy, the technology might evolve in the future to become more compelling for patients to favor the agency it provides over their data.

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WHY? Give Up Tele-Medicine!

Posted on September 19, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By Michael Kirsch, M.D

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Why This Doctor Gave Up Telemedicine

During the pandemic, I engaged in telemedicine with my patients out of necessity. This platform was already destined to become part of the medical landscape even prior to the pandemic. COVID-19 accelerated the process. The appeal is obvious. Patients can have medical visits from their own homes without driving to the office, parking, checking in, finding their way to the office, biding time in the waiting room and then driving out afterwards. And patients could consult physicians from far distances, even across state lines. Most of the time invested in traditional office visits occurs before and after the actual visits. So much time wasted! Indeed, telemedicine has answered the prayers of time management enthusiasts.

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PODCAST: 19 Industries that Blockchain will Disrupt?

Posted on September 18, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

Healthcare Included

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For Entrepreneurs and Investors, Discovering Truth Takes Time

Posted on September 16, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

For Investors, Discovering Truth Takes Time

By Vitaliy Katsenelson CFA

The Roman philosopher, playwright, statesman and occasional satirist Lucius Annaeus Seneca wasn’t talking about the stock market when he wrote that “time discovers truth,” but he could have been. In the long run a stock price will reflect a company’s (true) intrinsic value. In the short run the pricing is basically random.

Here are two real-life examples:

Let’s say you had the smarts to buy Microsoft in November 1992. It would have been a brilliant decision in the long run — the software giant’s stock has gone up manyfold since. But nine months later, in August 1993, that call did not look so brilliant: Microsoft shares had declined 25 percent in less than a year. In fact, it would have taken you 18 months, until May 1994, for this purchase to break even. Eighteen months of dumbness?

In the early ’90s the PC industry was still in its infancy. Microsoft’s DOS and Windows operating systems were de facto standards. Outside of Macs and a tiny fraction of IBM computers, every computer came preinstalled with DOS and Windows. Microsoft had a pristine balance sheet and a brilliant co-founder and CEO who would turn mountains upside down to make sure the company succeeded. The above sentence is infested with hindsight — after all, that was almost 30 years ago. But Microsoft clearly had an incredible moat, which became wider with every new PC sold and every new software program written to run on Windows.

Here is another example. GoPro is a maker of video cameras used by surfers, skiers and other extreme sports enthusiasts. If you had bought the stock soon after it went public, in 2014, you would have paid $40 a share for a $5.5 billion–market-cap company earning about $100 million a year — a price-earnings ratio of about 55. Your impatience would, however, have been rewarded: The stock more than doubled in just a few short months, hitting $90.

Would it have been a good decision to buy GoPro? The company makes a great product — I own one. But GoPro has no moat. None. Most components that go into its cameras are commodities. There are no barriers to entry into the specialized video camera segment. Most important, there are no switching costs for consumers. Investors who bought GoPro after its IPO paid a huge premium for the promise of much higher earnings from a company that might or might not be around five years later.

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What is even more interesting is that some of those buyers were then selling to even bigger fools who bought at double the price a few months later. GoPro was a momentum stock that was riding a wave about to break. Fast-forward a year and GoPro sales are collapsing, so now the stock is trading in the low teens ($11.65 as of this writing).

These two examples bring us to the nontrivial topics of complex systems and nonlinearity. My favorite thinker, Nassim Taleb, wrote the following in his book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder: “Complex systems are full of interdependencies — hard to detect — and nonlinear responses. ‘Nonlinear’ means that when you double the dose of, say, a medication, or when you double the number of employees in a factory, you don’t get twice the initial effect, but rather a lot more or a lot less.”

The stock market is a complex system where in the short term there are few if any interdependencies between decisions and outcomes. In the short run stock prices are driven by thousands of random variables. Stock market participants have different risk tolerances and emotional aptitudes, and diverse time horizons ranging from milliseconds (for high-speed traders) to years (for long-term investors).

Assessment

In other words, predicting where a stock price will be in a day, a month or even a year is not much different from prognosticating whether the ball on a roulette wheel will land on red or black. In the longer run, however, good decisions should pay off because fundamentals will shine through — just as was the case with buying Microsoft in 1992 and not buying GoPro in 2014. But in the short run there is no correlation between good decisions and results. None!

Whenever you look at your portfolio, think of the Microsoft and GoPro examples above. The performance of your stocks in the short run tells you absolutely nothing about what you own or about the quality of your decisions. You may own a portfolio of Microsofts, and its value is still going down because at this juncture the market doesn’t care about Microsofts. Or maybe you stuffed your retirement fund with overpriced fads that may not be around a year from now. But in the longer run, which always lies out there past the short run, time discovers truth, as Seneca said.

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PODCAST: Machine Learning For Population Health

Posted on September 10, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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PODCAST: Google Starts a Health Insurance Stop-Loss Company

Posted on September 9, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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On Blockchain in Healthcare

Posted on September 8, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

Five [5] Benefits and Five [5] Barriers

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PODCAST: A Block Chain Video

Posted on September 8, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

What it is – How it works

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PODCAST: http://www.realitysharesadvisors.com/indexes/blockchain-index/

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PODCAST: Our Home as Hospital of the Future

Posted on September 8, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

Healthcare Is Coming Home With Sensors And Algorithms

By Bertalan Meskó, MD PhD

Instead of futuristic hospital buildings and huge devices, disruptive technologies injected into small, almost invisible objects will set the trends in medicine. Such devices will create smart households bringing healthcare home.

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Dictionary of Health Economics and Finance
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PODCAST: An EHR State of Mind

Posted on September 7, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

Two Rap Music Videos

[By staff reporters]

Can you believe these videos are five years old?

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https://youtu.be/gaLi0ak5D-o

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“Financial Management Strategies for Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/yagu567d

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How Health Technology Costs Human Jobs [video]

Posted on September 4, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

About a needle-wielding robot [Veebot]

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Video: http://www.veebot.com

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/082610254

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Driving medical, and HR, costs down with new technology. Good for us … bad for phlebotomists.

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PODCAST: Primary Care Innovation at Scale [ChenMed]

Posted on September 1, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By Eric Bricker MD

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Only 7 % of mHealth apps have more than 50,000 monthly active users

Posted on August 27, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

Best mHealth user retention concepts

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By Stela Nikolova
Research2Guidance
phone: +49 176 819 26976
email: stela.nikolova@research2guidance.com
www.research2guidance.com

Dear David,

Please find below Research2Guidance’s latest digital health article: “Only 7 % of mHealth apps have more than 50,000 monthly active users – Best mHealth user retention concepts“.

User retention for digital healthcare solutions is still a major issue. Only 7% of mHealth app portfolios count more than 50,000 active users. mHealth publishers know that to become a daily companion, mobile health apps must be individualized, easy to work with and offer real value to their users. Having a good share of active users offers them more business opportunities.

Which user retention concepts work best for mHealth apps?

Thank you for your time.

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TWO SKILLS: Physician Programmers Need to Know

Posted on August 22, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By Joel Comm

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Machine Learning

The global machine learning market was valued at $15.44 billion in 2021, and it is expected to grow to $209 billion by 2029. Machine Learning is a technology that has grown in popularity over the past years, especially driven by the success of companies like Google in the field of AI.

This success is also in big part due to the technology becoming more accessible to the masses. Take OpenAI’s AI image generator, DALL-E, as an example: Since DALL-E Mini went public, it has been given uses ranging from making memes to artwork worth the attention of The New Yorker.

Gone are the days in which machine learning was only accessible to researchers in top-notch institutions. Today, machine learning can be mastered all around the globe in official institutions, online education platforms, and even via comics.

Web3 / Blockchain Development

Whether you are invested in crypto and NFTs or not, the Metaverse is being built, and it promises to turn centralized, corporate-controlled Web2 on its head. The world of computer users–that’s pretty much all of us–has, for years, grown increasingly frustrated by having to operate under the oversight of a few monoliths.

The promise of Web3 is community–not corporation–first.

Innovators in the space like Proof of Learn are developing easily accessible educational platforms where Web2 pros and the tech-interested can learn to code in Web3, in a learn and earn model. The company’s first project is a lore-rich online academy called Metacrafters.io, drawing in gamers and developers, and attracting some serious backing from leading VCs and crypto investors. Fellow industry leaders, such as Solana, Flow, Avalanche, and Polygon Foundations, recently gave $4.5 million in grant funding to support Metacrafters’ mission of upskilling Web2 developers. This grant helps fund their learn and earn protocol, so you get to take courses in a game world and get paid for it.

Metacrafters.io might be one with this learn and earn model teaching coding skills, but it is in line to inspire more of its kind. Look around at the landscape of Web3 education and get cracking, because the Metaverse will be here sooner than expected, and developers will be the major players in it.

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Stay Alert for Investment Scams Involving Cryptocurrency

Posted on August 10, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By Charles Schwab

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Stay alert for investment scams involving cryptocurrency

At Schwab, we’re committed to helping you protect your assets. One way we do that is by raising awareness of the increase in fraudulent investment schemes (“scams”) involving cryptocurrencies and digital assets. While investing involves taking some risks, being scammed shouldn’t be one of them.

What do scams look like? Investment scams target investors by promising quick, guaranteed returns. Although “investment pitches” vary, using fraudulent cryptocurrency investment opportunities to entice targets is a common approach.

Once targeted investors indicate interest, they are often instructed to wire funds abroad or to a third party’s personal account, or to transfer cryptocurrency. Fake websites and/or applications often create the illusion of a legitimate trading or investment platform and gain trust. However, once funds have been transferred, they are difficult to trace and retrieve.

5 Investment Scam Red Flags

• Guaranteed” high investment returns, supposedly with little or no risk, and sounding too good to be true.
• Unlicensed or unregistered sellers. Use Investor.gov to check out the background of anyone offering you an investment in securities.
• Skyrocketing account values. Investments that appear to rapidly increase in value are often fake.
• Fake testimonials. Scammers often pay people to provide fake reviews, so never rely solely on testimonials in making an investment decision.
• Fake contacts. Take caution if someone approaches you through social media with an investment opportunity. Pretending to be a friend or to have a mutual acquaintance is a common tactic used to gain trust.

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UPDATE: A Technology Round-Up

Posted on August 7, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

Gossip -OR- True

By Staff Reporters

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1. Oracle insiders describe “complete chaos” from layoffs and restructuring. Oracle began a sizable layoff, potentially impacting thousands of employees — and those who haven’t yet been laid off are scrambling to figure out whether they’ll be next.

2. The FOMC is deepening its investigation into Amazon’s Prime sign-up and cancellation process. The FTC sent out subpoenas and other demands for information after Insider reporting. Here’s our scoop on what’s going on.

3. Axed “Robinhoodies” say they were tipped off to layoffs weeks ago. Former employees said they saw signs of belt-tightening — including plans to shrink office space — long before the company laid off 23% of its staff. Five former employees took us behind the scenes.

4. Elon Musk’s counter-suit against Twitter says the company is operating a “scheme” to mislead investors. Musk argued that he is entitled to drop the deal entirely — and Twitter pushed back, saying the billionaire’s story is “implausible.” Get the big takeaways.

5. Nike is offering $5,000 employee bonuses for some tech job referrals. Grappling with internal turmoil and a wave of exits, the company announced the new referral program, met with mixed reviews from employees. Here’s what we know.

6. Fifteen current and former Apple female employees say the company dismissed claims of misconduct. After the Financial Times reported the HR unit retaliated against some of them after speaking up about the incidents, Apple vowed to “make changes.” What we know so far.

7. Startup founders’ mental health is crumbling. Dried-up funding and the stress of a turbulent economic year has piled stress on founders who are already trying to do the impossible: build iconic tech companies. Why some founders “are especially not OK.”

8. Elon Musk denied that he’s planning to build his own private airport in Texas. Local news site Austonia reported last week that an airport could help grow his companies in the region, but Musk said that’s “not true” Get the full rundown here.

9. Mark Zuckerberg is minting an NFT of his Little League baseball card. In a post announcing Instagram’s expanded support for NFTs, Zuckerberg shared his own “soon-to-be NFT.” See the potential digital collectible of a young Zuck.

10. Unsend text messages using iOS 16. iPhone users with iOS 16 will have 15 minutes to un-send a text — and delete it from the recipient’s phone. How it works and how to do it.

READ HERE: https://medium.com/quantum-leap/future-technology-roundup-748cd03e04f6

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CRISPR: Play-by-Play of an Experiment

Posted on August 6, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

Scientists in Jennifer Doudna’s lab pull back the veil on their gene-editing process

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeat

By Hayden Field

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CRISPR is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea. These sequences are derived from DNA fragments of bacteriophages that had previously infected the prokaryote. They are used to detect and destroy DNA from similar bacteriophages during subsequent infections

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And, we’ve posted about CRISPR before: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2021/07/08/on-crispr-gene-editing/

So now, what is the use of CRISPR for antiobiotics?

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Me, Marcinko and Dr. Avatar in 2022 [Metaverse?]

Posted on August 3, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

The Virtual Doctor Will See You Now!

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP™

[Publisher-in-Chief]

Recently, I was invited to speak at a regional convention. No surprise there as I have been doing so – around the world – for more than twenty years – webcasts included. And, I was asked to submit the usual paraphernalia; a formal CV, audio-visual needs, travel arrangements and times, PPE, and a personal photo which were all dutifully supplied.

Then, I was asked to supply something that flabbergasted me; I became slack-jawed, actually.

DEM’s Avatar

Imagine my surprise when I was asked for an avatar; not just a digital photograph. So – having none – I had one made and now submit it for your review.

Photograph of Dr. David Edward Marcinko @ home

Avatar of Dr. David Edward Marcinko @ work

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So, how do I virtually look – better or worse – glasses or contact lens? It seems as though some folks are more interested in the virtual me; than the real me. Go figure!

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PODCASTS: HEDIS Explained

Posted on August 3, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

Healthcare Effectiveness Data & Information Set

By Eric Bricker MD

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UPDATE: Apple, Bitcoin & Ether

Posted on July 31, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By Staff Reporters

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Apple just announced its most recent quarterly results. Compared to the rest of the tech industry, the numbers were pretty good. Apple’s profits were down 11 percent from the same period last year but the company beat estimates and still managed to set a record for third-quarter revenue. Considering the challenges facing the entire economy, those numbers are pretty remarkable. The tech industry has been hit especially hard over the past few months due to things like a shortage of computer processors, inflation, and weakening demand; etc.

Bitcoin and Ether, the world’s two largest digital tokens, are headed toward their best month since 2021 amid a revival of risk appetite in global markets and optimism about an Ethereum network upgrade. Bitcoin is up 28% in July and Ether 70%, though their rallies paused Friday. Both were little changed, with Bitcoin at about $23,950 as of 5 p.m. in New York and Ether hovering around $1,730.

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About the Life-Math Medical Decision Tool Project of MGH

Posted on July 27, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

The Research Projects of the Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine

By Staff Reporters

According to Tom Goetz, new online decision tools like LifeMath.net, a project of Harvard University’s Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine, take advantage of cheap computer processing power to crunch data into personalized medical recommendations, making it far more relevant than generic advice (and thus much more likely to result in lasting change, addressing what doctors call “the compliance problem”).

These and other tools use technology for what it’s good at. They put the tools directly in our hands, and get us engaged in our health before we need the expertise of specialists. Of course, this is the stuff of participatory and Health 2.0 collaborative medicine.

Research Areas

There are five areas of focus for the project:

Laboratory and Quantitative Medicine
Binary Biology
Cancer Math
Preventative Math
Health Communications Technology

Assessment

For more information, please contact:

James S. Michaelson PhD
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School & Departments of Pathology and Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Email: james.michaelson@gmail.com

Note: Thomas Goetz is the author of “The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Age of Personalized Medicine.” He is also the executive editor at Wired Magazine.

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“Disruptive” DIGITAL BUSINESS MODELS For Health Insurers

Posted on July 23, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

The Top 10 [Ten] Disruptive Digital Business Models For Health Insurers

By Zhang Jie

Digital technologies will transform the health insurance business. Early adopters have started to implement new digital business models with initial success. A new report describes ten digital business models for health insurers that will disrupt the industry.

Dear Dr. David Marcinko and all ME-P Readers,

We are excited to announce the release of Research2Guidance’s new “The 10 Disruptive Digital Business Models for Health Insurers” report.

Please find below the special report story.

Advances in higher-quality digital technology—especially apps, sensors, and artificial intelligence (AI)—along with their proliferation among members have spurred the emergence of new business models.

The new report “The 10 Disruptive Digital Business Models for Health Insurers” published by Research2Guidance describes how start-ups, health insurance and general payer organizations have started using these technologies to venture into new forms of health insurance offerings and increasingly step into the healthcare provider role.

New digital models change the way the insurers interact with patients. For example, digital insurers have reworked the trust equation with the patient, outsourced much of their value chain to their members, and now know much more about them. Digital business models tend to also blur the lines between payer and care giver organizations. Some of the first-movers already crossed the line and started to offer services which have previously been provided exclusively by doctors and nurses. The ten digital business models are defined as follows:

Digitally assisted member acquisition is a freemium business model concept.
Mobile health concierge is a business approach designed for members to complete all health insurance tasks using mobile phones with the support from a concierge team.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance refers to a risk-sharing community.
Mobile micro-insurance refers to the health insurance plans that cover short-term small health events or minimal ongoing health insurance.
Health insurers tech platforms license their technology for the management of health plans and members to their customers.
On-demand insurance is a usage-based model that enables members to access desired health plans upon request with the help of a mobile app.
High-risk patient preventive care model concentrates on insuring and managing potentially costly patient groups.
The payer & provider collaboration model stands for a closer, digitally enabled partnership between payers and care providers, especially hospitals.
The API health insurance model uses a list of pre-defined health insurance products accessible to websites and app providers via an application programming interface (API).
Direct primary care model. Within this model, a care provider or a hospital act like a health insurance company using a monthly subscription model.

First implementations of these models indicate the positive impact that they have on the company evaluation, the ability to attract new members, the cost structure, and new revenue streams. Currently, the main impact of digital business models is on company evaluation, which reflects the hype that some companies have created in the investor community. Companies like Oscar, Clover Health, and Bright Health are valued at over $1 billion USD each after only a few years of operation.

Health insurers and start-ups from the USA and China are the most aggressive in adopting new digital business models. Companies from other regions tend to choose a follower approach or implement copycats.

ASSESSMENT

The report also profiles first-mover digital implementations. Profiles include their target groups, operating models, service offerings, and early evidence for success where available.

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Big Data and Health Economics: S.W.O.Ts.

Posted on July 23, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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Read Here: https://healthcarefinancials.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/big-data.pdf

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HIT: https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Health-Information-Technology-Security/dp/0826149952/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254413315&sr=1-5

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CURRENCY: Crypto -OR- Fiat?

Posted on July 17, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

From Morning Brew

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SURVEY: Artificial Intelligence [A.I.] in Health Care

Posted on July 15, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By AMA and MCOL

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JAMA: Public Views About Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

A recent JAMA survey asked “Overall, in the next 5 years, do you think AI will make health care in the United States?” The survey results were as follows:

• Much better: 10.9%
• Somewhat better: 44.5%
• Minimal change: 19.3%
• Somewhat worse: 4.3%
• Much worse: 1.9%
• Don’t know: 19%

Source: JAMA Network, May 4, 2022

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AMA: Doctors Committed to Tele-Health

Posted on July 6, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By AMA / MCOL

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AMA: Doctors Committed to Tele-Health

• More than 80% said patients have better access to care since using telehealth.
• 62% believe patients have higher satisfaction since offering telehealth.
• 60% agreed telehealth enabled them to provide high-quality care.
• 56% are motivated to increase telehealth use in their practices.
• 44% indicated that telehealth decreased the costs of care.

Source: AMA, April 1, 2022

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Q1 2022 – The Entrepreneurial Digital Health Financing Boom Chills

Posted on July 3, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By Phil Taylor

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US digital health company investment financing experienced a dip in Q1 of 2022, dropping to $6 billion from the $6.7 billion invested in Q1 2021. In addition, the average size of each investment deal dropped from $46 million last year to just shy of $33 million. These declines come after a boom in investments in recent years. The Rock Health Digital health securities index also reflected this year’s trend, including special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listings.

According to Phil Taylor of PharmaPhorum, “SPACs have been a popular route to public listing for digital health as well as many other sectors, but the deals have underperformed, with steep declines in share prices after they closed that has “exerted downwards pressure” on the Rock Health Digital Health Index (RHDHI).”

PODCASTS: 36 Blue Cross / Blue Shield Organizations Explained

Posted on July 2, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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A Doctor – Economist’s Solution for Health Reform

Posted on July 1, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

My Laundry Wish List for all US Healthcare Stakeholders

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™

[Publisher-in-Chief]

As President Obama spoke, prodded and cajoled for Congress to pass HR 3200-3400 in 2008, I believe that for any healthcare reform effort to work successfully for the American people – for the long term – we need to consider the following in no particular prioritized order:

Insurance portability uncoupled from patient employment
Health insurance regional exchanges with inter-state purchase competition
Doctor, drug, DME and hospital pricing and payment transparency for HSAs, and all of us
Modifying or eliminating AMA owned CPT Codes®; a huge money maker for them
Abandoning ala’ carte medicine for values-based outcomes
Reduce JCAHO influence; encourage competition from Norwegian Det Norske Veritas [DNV]
Reduce big-pharma influence thru-out the entire medical education, career and care pipeline
End DTC advertising from big-pharma
Promote wholesale drug purchase competition, MC bidding and generic drugs
Encourage evidence-based medicine, not expert-based medicine
Less pay for medical specialists with a re-evaluation of the hospitalist concept
Advance the dying art of physical diagnosis, teach and embrace Paretto’s 80/20 rule for clinic issues
Reduce lab test, diagnostic imaging and testing
Encourage private 24/7/365 medical offices and clinics; and on-site and retail clinics
Abandon P4P, medical homes and disease management ideas
Give more economic skin-in-game to patients relative to health benchmarks
Concretize the “never-event” prohibitions and include a list of patient health responsibilities
More pay for primary care docs and internists
Adopt digital records and cloud computing for patients
Phase in true eHRs incrementally; and abandon CCHIT for open source SaaS
Promote Health 2.0 social media.
Augmented scope of practice, numbers and pay for NPs and DNPs, etc
Reduce pay for CRNAs and increase it for staff RNs
Develop step down triage and treatment units to reduce the number of full service ERs
Increase medical, osteopathic, dental, optometric and podiatric medical school classes
Increased practice scope for dentists, podiatrists and optometrists
Make some sort of catastrophic HI mandatory, much like auto insurance for all
End pre-existing conditon health insurance contract clauses
More choice and end of life control for the terminally ill patient
Increase marketplace competition with fewer political and financial “externalities”.
Teach basic healthcare topics in school and encourage physical exercise
Health and insurance education should be, but is not, the “answer” for Americans
Protect borders and discourage undocumented illegals
Adopt medical malpractice tort reform
Make all stakeholders fiduciaries
No public “option” unless you like food stamps, Section 8 housing, public transportation and schools
Budget deficit neutrality
Slow down!

Assessment

Recently, while in the Baltimore/Washing area, I was asked by several reporters to opine on the healthcare debate; which I did so freely having never been known as the shy type. And, regular readers will note that many of these items have been used as posts or comments on this ME-P. Unfortunately, my “laundry list” interview was pre-empted by two local but boisterous town-hall meetings with respective passionate politicians. It was redacted no doubt, but never broadcast. Thus, I missed the potential for my “five minutes” of fame. C’est la vive!

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PODCAST: Healthcare I.T. Interoperability Rankings

Posted on June 29, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By Eric Bricker MD

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REPORT: Digital Health Technology

Posted on June 27, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By Staff Reporters and MCOL

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Digital Health Tech Report – 5 Key Findings

• 48% of hospitals don’t have a strong digital health strategy.
• 90% believe a strong digital health strategy is critical to improving outcomes, increasing productivity, and enhancing clinician satisfaction.
• 55% receive more than 11 vendor calls and emails from digital health solution vendors per week.
• 95% say it’s challenging to narrow down the list of digital health solutions to evaluate.
• 25% are “very confident” that, after selecting a new digital health solution, it’s truly the best one for their unique needs.

Source: Panda Health, April 2022

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HEALTH TECH: Technology Giants?

Posted on June 27, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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The Medical Futurist

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Google in healthcare: The search giant has repeatedly successfully transferred its in-depth knowledge of algorithms in the field of medicine, particularly since it acquired DeepMind.
Apple in healthcare: Apple will keep on working on expanding the health features of its devices, Apple Watch and iPhones included.
Microsoft in healthcare: Microsoft’s cloud solutions provide integrated capabilities that make it easier to improve the healthcare experience.
Amazon in healthcare: Amazon will make further use of its vast knowledge of online shopping trends and behavior and will keep on providing what people need, from medicine to wearables.
IBM in healthcare: IBM has a lot to offer in federated learning, blockchain, and quantum computing
Nvidia in healthcare: NVIDIA seems incredibly focused on its approach to healthcare. We can expect NVIDIA to be a leader in the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare
Facebook in healthcare: The Metaverse developed by Facebook/Meta has incredible potential to revolutionize healthcare.

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Ransomware Simplified?

Posted on June 26, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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“We’re now truly in the era of ransomware as pure extortion without the encryption –
Why screw around with cryptography and keys when just stealing the info is good enough”

–Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

{The Register, June 25, 2022]

READ: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/25/ransomware_gangs_extortion_feature/

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What is Techno SCAM-BAITING?

Posted on June 26, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

BY ANONYMOUS

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Scam-Baiting Behind the Scenes

The most basic form of scambaiting sets out to waste a scammer’s time. At a minimum, scambaiters attempt to make scammers answer countless questions or perform pointless and random tasks. By keeping a scammer busy, scambaiters claim they’re preventing the scammer from defrauding a real victim.

Scambaiting may also be conducted with a specific purpose in mind. Sometimes scambaiters attempt to obtain an offender’s bank account information, for instance, which they then report to a financial institution. But there are other, less benevolent motives in the scambaiting community.

Thousands of scambaiters are organised on the 419eater forum, which describes itself as the “largest scambaiting community on earth”, with over 1.7 million forum threads. The forum was first established in 2003 to tackle the growing issue of 419 emails – a scam that promises people huge sums of cash in return for a small upfront fee.

419eater provides a particularly interesting case study because members are incentivised and rewarded for their scambaits through a unique system of icons, regarded as trophies, that they can obtain in their profile’s signature lines.

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SURVEY: Medical Imaging A.I. Adoption?

Posted on June 20, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By MCOL

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Medical Imaging A.I. Adoption Survey [3 Takeaways]

• When it comes to specific activities, 88% of respondents trust or are neutral about AI’s role in making appointments.
• Only 19% of respondents believed they received care supported by AI, while 24% did not know, and 58% believed they had not.
• 60% think that AI will perform over half of radiology services in five years, with that number increasing to 75% of respondents in the next 20 years.

Source: Intelerad via HIT Consultant, “Patient Trust Not a Barrier to AI Medical Imaging Adoption,” May 31, 2022

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PODCAST: Health Tech Faves & Investment Trends from Entrepreneurs

Posted on June 19, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

START-UPS AND INNOVATIONS

Health tech investment raced ahead in 2020. Join innovation insiders for a discussion on new health technologies, health-care’s digital transformation timeline, and what to expect for mid- to long-term health tech investment.

Health Care Technology Today | Canadian Physiotherapy ...

PODCAST: https://www.healthsharetv.com/content/golive-webinar-health-tech-faves-investment-trends-innovation-insiders

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e-Prescriptions for Dentists?

Posted on June 17, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By Darrell K. Pruitt DDS

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Some say e-prescriptions are a swell idea for dentists!

“Over 70% of organizations suffered two or more ransomware attacks in the past 12 months – According to the data presented by the Atlas VPN team based on a Veeam 2022 Ransomware Trends Report, 73% of organizations suffered two or more ransomware attacks in the past 12 months. The majority — 44% of ransomware infections entered through phishing emails, links, and websites. In total, 35% of organizations experienced two ransomware attacks, nearly a quarter (24%) endured three, close to a fifth (9%) of companies had four, and 4% went through five. Meanwhile, 1% of organizations suffered six or more ransomware attacks in the past 12 months. The remaining 27% of organizations faced only one ransomware attack.” By Acrofan, June 15, 2022.
https://us.acrofan.com/detail.php?number=679260

“Why Ransomware Extortion is a Threat – In a typical ransomware extortion scheme, files are not only encrypted, but are also copied and exfiltrated from the network. Then, when the time comes to demand payment, hackers also say that if the business doesn’t meet their ransom demands within a given timeframe, they will publish the stolen files, or undertake some other activity to harm the business, such as a DDoS attack. This is known as double, or even triple extortion, with threats to release confidential information to the public, disrupt internet access or inform customers, shareholders or other partners about the incident unless they pay the ransom. It puts more pressure on businesses to make a quick decision, boosts the odds of criminals getting a big payout and increases the number of risks firms are exposed to, so this type of ransomware is something every firm should be concerned about.” By Brenda Robb for Security Boulevard on June 15, 2022.
https://securityboulevard.com/2022/06/why-ransomware-extortion-is-a-threat/

It is also worth noting that if a dentist suffers a ransomware attack, HIPAA demands that all affected patients be notified that their identities might have been breached and might show up on the internet. If the breach involves 500 or more records, a description of the incident must be reported in the local media. This could easily bankrupt a practice even before the ransom is paid. What’s more, from the increasing numbers of data breaches that are occurring, one can surmise that dentists are not obeying the law … not yet.

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The RETURN of Paper Dental Records?

Posted on June 9, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By Darrell Pruitt DDS

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More reasons to stick with paper if you haven’t yet become paperless, Doc

“Paying Ransomware Paints Bigger Bullseye on Target’s Back – Ransomware attackers often strike targets twice, regardless of whether the ransom was paid. Paying ransomware attackers doesn’t pay off and often paints a bigger target on a victim’s back. Eighty percent of ransomware victims that paid their attackers were hit a second time by the malware scourge.” – Threatpost, June 8, 2022.

Paying Ransomware Paints Bigger Bullseye on Target’s Back

A dentist can avoid the second ransomware attack by returning to paper … What? Yeah. I said it.

“New ransomware numbers come from a Cybereason’s April ransomware survey of 1,456 cybersecurity professionals. According to the gated report (registration required), victims that were successfully extorted were not only targeted a second time, but frequently data encrypted by criminals later became unusable during the decryption process because of corruption issues.”

OR – one can retire!

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UPDATE: VC Funding; Shiller, Dalio & Weinberger; A Crypto Law Suit and the Stock Markets

Posted on June 9, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

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Global venture capital investment was a healthy $39 billion in May, according to Crunchbase. But, the figure declined for the second month in a row, reaching the lowest point since December 2020. In monthly terms, VC investments declined by nearly 16%. In yearly terms, it fell by 20%.

Nobel laureate and economist Robert Shiller said the US has a good chance of entering a recession. He told Bloomberg the odds of a recession in the next few years are 50%, which is “much higher than normal.” Shiller predicted in 2005 that the housing bubble would burst and also warned a new one may be forming. And, Ray Dalio said the FMOC will cut interest rates to combat stagflation in a recent Market Insider interview. “We are in a tighttening mode … the pain of that will become great.”

Additionally, former EY Global Chairman and CEO Mark Weinberger warned that inflation will not go down in the near future, causing the economy to “turn for the worse.”

Gemini, a crypto exchange and custodian founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss faced a loss in February in the form of a $36 million breach. And now the company is being sued over its alleged failure to protect its customers.

The Stock Markets have been a bit dull recently. The S&P 500 has been directionless trading within a roughly 100-point range for the past two weeks. The only energy in the market seems to belong to Exxon Mobil which notched a record close; first since 2014.

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SURVEY: Tele-Health Weekly Visits

Posted on June 8, 2022 by The D.E.A. ROGUE WARRIOR

By MCOL

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% Providing Video Telehealth Visits to 5+ Patients Per Week

• Primary Care Physician: 74%
• Behavioral Health Provider: 88%
• Registered Nurse: 62%
• Medical Assistant: 80%

Source: RAND, “Experiences of Health Centers in Implementing Telehealth Visits for Underserved Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” May 2022

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