Bionic M2M: Are Skin-mounted M2M devices – the future of eHealth?
In the popular American TV series that aired on ABC in the 70s, Steve Austin is the “Six million Dollar Man”, a former astronaut with bionic implants. The show and its spinoff, The Bionic Woman (Lindsay Wagner playing a former tennis player who was rebuilt with bionic parts similar to Austin after a parachuting accident) […]
The Private Social Network for healthcare
In his post on the Pathcare blog, I trust you to keep this private, Danny Lieberman talked about the roles that trust, security and privacy play in online healthcare interactions. In this post, Danny talks about healthcare privacy challenges in social networks and describes how to implement a private social network for healthcare without government privacy […]
Can I use Dropbox for storing healthcare data?
First of all, I’m a great fan of Dropbox. It’s easy to use, fast, runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and that means you can share files with colleagues and patients for consultations because that old assumption (that a lot of vendors still make by the way) that everyone is on Windows just isn’t true these […]
How to keep secrets in healthcare online
The roles of trust, security and privacy in healthcare. If President Obama had told his psychiatrist he was gay, you can bet that it would be on Facebook in 5′. So much for privacy. pri·va·cy/ˈprīvəsē/ Noun: The state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. The state of being […]
Five things a healthcare CIO can do to improve security
A metaphor I like to use with clients compares security vulnerabilities with seismic fault lines. As long as the earth doesn’t move – you’re safe, but once things start moving sideways – you can drop into a big hole. Most security vulnerabilities reside in the cracks of systems and organizational integration and during an M&A, those […]
How to secure patient data in a healthcare organization
If you are a HIPAA covered entity or a business associate vendor to a HIPAA covered entity the question of HIPAA – the question of securing patient data is central to your business. If you are a big organization, you probably don’t need my advice – since you have a lot of money to spend […]
Debugging security
There is an interesting analogy between between debugging software and debugging the security of your systems. As Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike wrote in “The Practice of Programming” As personal choice, we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a stack trace or the value of a variable or two. One reason is that it is […]
Encryption, a buzzword, not a silver bullet
Encryption, buzzword, not a silver bullet for protecting data on your servers. In order to determine how encryption fits into server data protection, consider 4 encryption components on the server side: passwords, tables, partitions and inter-tier socket communications. In these 4 components of a application / database server encryption policy, note that some countermeasures are […]
Treat passwords like cash
How much personal technology do you carry around when you travel? Do you use one of those carry-on bags with your notebook computer on top of the carry-on? A friend who is a commercial pilot had his bag swiped literally behind his back while waiting on line to check-in to a 4 star Paris hotel. […]
Tahrir square – the high-tech version
From Wired The revolt that started a year ago today in Egypt was spread by Twitter and YouTube, or so the popular conception goes. But a group of Navy-backed researchers has a more controversial thesis:Egyptians were infected by the idea of overthrowing their dictator. Using epidemiological modeling to chart the discussions and their trajectory online is an interesting idea, I don’t […]
