Tag: MEDICALRECORDS

Back in November, a group of hackers broke into a New Hampshire medical sever hosting 230,000 patient records, but the data itself was apparently just a collateral-damage afterthought. According to the Register, the ne'er-do-wells breached the Seacoast Radiology server in order to appropriate its bandwidth capabilities for playing 'Call of Duty.' Although the server housed names, Social ...

Not only can electronic medical data and records save time, but they may even be able to save lives. According to Scientific American, researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit are collecting electronic health data to help prepare for this October's Detroit Free Press Marathon. By learning about runners' medical conditions before the race, organizers can strategically place doctors at ...

The National Center for Health Statistics, a part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a new study that reveals how far digital medical records have to go before replacing the mess of paper records doctors currently rely on. According to a survey of 2,000 doctors nationwide, just under 40-percent of doctors use electronic records. Most use them in combination with ...

When most people think about ID theft and fraud, their concern is over bank accounts and credit ratings. But have you thought about the security of your medical identity? It turns out medical ID theft is a major and growing concern among security pros, who say that once your medical ID is compromised it can take years to undo the damage. Most hospitals, they say, don't do much to confirm ...

Google already knows everything else about you, your schedule, the contents of your E-mail, even what web pages you visit, so why not let it get its hands on what's inside your body? Hot on the heels of Microsoft's announcement of its HealthVault initiative, Google has decided to announce its plans to work on digitizing health records and making them portable. Marissa Mayer, Vice President of ...