Universal Healthcare or GTFO by Bryce Weiner
If you want to change the world have experience with:
* Foodstamps
* Homelessness
* Gov’t healthcare
* Access to sanitation
* Access to clean water
You can do this in the United States, right now. That fear of doing it is what is holding you back from affecting real change.
I would very much appreciate techies and those who fund them to come down out of their ivory towers and reconnect with the human race before getting wtfpwned when trying to “disrupt” medicine, government, or law. Y’all gonna embarrass yourselves for no damn reason but hubris.
Universal healthcare or GTFO
The fear of being poor, of being powerless, of being just like everyone else is what stops people from being real, positive agents of change and sadly instead devolve into agents of greed.
$1,000,000,000 startup idea: an AI trained to detect transposed and erroneous coding of medical record input, saving nearly 100,000 lives per year in the United States, alone.
Anyone preaching “decentralized medicine” has no idea what the problems are or the pain points for the consumer. How about you fix medical coding errors and save lives, instead?
For at least six years various startups have been given millions of dollars and unfettered access to the in’s and out’s of medical data handling just to prove that a blockchain is not a solution. Decentralized medicine is a Brave New World society not for statism, but for profit.
There are over 10,000 different medical groups in the United States, alone: from large hospital conglomerates to small groups of specialists. None of them use the same format for medical records. There’s no mandate to do so. Not from the govt. Not from the customer. Nobody.
You see this? I wrote this. It’s software for the DHHS which allows individual stakeholders in medical records to run their own reporting based on their own medical record formats. How is this not already decentralized?
https://www.ahrq.gov/data/monahrq/index.html
The medical data itself never leaves the security of the primary stakeholder but somehow a blockchain is supposed to fix … what, exactly?
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The Security of Medical Data
without a password.
The little-known software company, California-based Meditab, bills itself as one of the leading electronic medical records software makers for hospitals, doctor’s offices, and pharmacies. The company, among other things, processes electronic faxes for healthcare providers, still a primary method for sharing patient files to other providers and pharmacies. But that fax server wasn’t properly secured, according to the security company that discovered the data. SpiderSilk, a Dubai-based cybersecurity firm, told TechCrunch of the exposed server. The exposed fax server was running a Elasticsearch database with over six million records since its creation in March 2018. […]
Can medical records be used for marketing? HIPAA has a gray zone for patient portals.
But here’s the head scratcher: Follow My Health claims it is not limited by HIPAA. “Unlike a patient portal that a vendor hosts or supports for a single health-care provider, a vendor of a personal health record product that allows individual consumers to aggregate their health information from multiple sources is not regulated by HIPAA,” Lynch said. The HIPAA-covered business associate relationship, he said, is “limited to the technical work that is necessary to establish and maintain connectivity”
Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold in the health-care industry through the handling of patients’ medical data. Amazon.com, Apple, Microsoft are also aggressively pushing into health care, though they haven’t yet struck deals of this scope.
What Can Be Done Right Now to Stop a Basic Source of Health Care Fraud — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/what-can-be-done-right-now-to-stop-a-basic-source-of-health-care-fraud
Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurers-make-it-easy-for-scammers-to-steal-millions-who-pays-you
Millionaire CEO of Nonprofit Hospital That Sues the Poor Promises Review of Policies https://www.propublica.org/article/methodist-le-bonheur-healthcare-ceo-promises-review-of-policies
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56% of Health Providers Still Rely on Legacy Windows 7 Systems
“I’m not going to lose patients just because I lost records, but I tell you what: if they’re expecting something from me and I can’t deliver? That’s going to matter,” he added. With that in mind, here are the largest healthcare data breaches from the first half of 2019.
medical data theft – selling personal information or falsely obtaining healthcare could lead insurance fraud [they won’t insure you anymore but it wasn’t you / not your fault / you can’t explain what happened / can’t recover your health insurance anymore —- to dangerously muddled patient records.
Unsecured Medical Images Are an Underrated Threat to Patients
insecure companies that run “Patient Portals” on doctors websites and businesses that store your images from your X-rays, MRIs or CT scans.
ProPublica reported in September that images from more than 24 million medical exams were left unprotected on the internet. Unlike a hack or intentional security breach, these medical images — which often include name, date of birth and sometimes social security number — lacked basic digital security protection. Any internet user could easily access the images if they know where to look without even a password.
TechCrunch security editor Zack Whittaker explained that since September, the problem has gotten worse, not better. More than 1 billion scan images from over 35 million patient exams are now exposed on the internet worldwide. TechCrunch and security firm Greenbone Networks made multiple attempts to alert the imaging centers exposing the most patient data to tighten security. So far, they haven’t gotten much response, leaving millions of unsuspecting patients vulnerable to medical identity theft and insurance fraud.
106,000 patient records potentially breached by 3rd-party vendor
The computer system of the Radiology Center from Mid-Michigan Physicians Imaging Center was breached in March, but officials say the extensive investigation delayed the breach.
Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.
Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer code can view patient records. One expert warned about it for years.
According to Accenture’s research, breaches were most likely to occur in hospitals, followed by urgent-care clinics, pharmacies, physicians’ offices, and health insurers. Often, organizations are late to detecting a problem: half of U.S. consumers who experienced a breach discovered it themselves through an error on their credit card statement or benefits explanation. Only a third were alerted to the breach by the organization where it occurred, and just 15% were alerted by a government agency. Security professionals, aware of the potential opportunities for healthcare information breach, are capable of helping hospital systems, and the industry overall, strengthen defenses to help ensure that consumer data is safe.
Good to know..