Posts Tagged with tech

by adgrooms on February 7, 2020

"My watch is saying I'm going into Afib, but it also says I've got that call in 5 minutes...what to do?!?!"

-the dilemma of an Apple Watch user-

I don't own an Apple Watch, but Apple is convincing many that wearable health monitors are the next cool must-have gadget. They have had massive success with their other products, but now there is a watch that can track and report personal ...

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by adgrooms on February 5, 2020

How has technology affected your life in the past 20 years? What effects have been improvements? What affects have created challenges?

What are technology companies' ethical responsibilities to society?

These are big questions, but they need to be asked as we live in a time where technology is integrated into many parts of our lives. It may feel like life has always been this ...

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by adgrooms on February 4, 2020

"Hey, Google," "What was my LDL cholesterol from last year's checkup?"

With the inevitable interoperability rules being enacted by HHS agencies, some of us may be asking Google or Alexa questions about information in our personal health records. The new rules will allow patients to give third-party apps access to their PHI. Big tech has been courting healthcare for some time now. Google ...

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by adgrooms on December 14, 2019

We are currently working on a healthcare data breach report, visualizing and analyzing reported incidents from the last ten years. This is the second installment of our data breach report. We will keep releasing portions of the report as we make new discoveries.

Breaches come in all sizes, from a stolen laptop to a database break-in. We can see this in the report data. The scatter graph ...

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by adgrooms on December 13, 2019

Healthcare data is a prime target for hackers. Studies have shown that data breaches cost an average of $8 million for healthcare entities or about $400 per patient record. This emphasizes the need for good defenses and awareness to protect patient health information.

We are creating a report that analyzes at the past 10 years of data from the US Department of Health and Human Services ...

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