Tag: Patient

Colorado Hospital Patient Information System Hit by Crypto Ransomware

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Hackers have infected the infrastructure of Parkview Medical Center — the largest health center in Pueblo County, Colorado — with cryptocurrency ransomware. Citing a hospital employee, Fox News reported on April 24 that Meditech — the Parkview Medical Center’s system for storing patient information — was infected with ransomware and rendered inoperable. The hospital confirmed the incident in a statement: “On Tuesday, April 21, Parkview Medical Center was the target  of a cyber-incident which has resulted in an outage in a number of our IT systems.” As Cointelegraph recently reported, ransomware…

London pharmacy fined after “careless” storage of patient data

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a London-based pharmacy £275,000 for failing to ensure the security of special category data. Doorstep Dispensaree Ltd, which supplies medicines to customers and care homes, left approximately 500,000 documents in unlocked containers at the back of its premises in Edgware. The documents included names, addresses, dates of birth, NHS numbers, medical information and prescriptions belonging to an unknown number of people. Documents, some of which had not been appropriately protected against the elements and were therefore water damaged, were dated between June 2016…

The Year of the Patient Builder and the Persistent Bully

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This post is part of CoinDesk’s 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Trent Larson is a software developer in the blockchain industry. These opinions are his and do not necessarily reflect the views of his employer or family. (However, there are many humans who do share these opinions.) 2019 was the year of The Patient Builder and The Persistent Bully. After the exuberance of 2017 with bitcoins selling for nearly $20,000, businesses and ICOs came out…

Can Blockchain Offer Protection for Most Personal Patient Data?

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In today’s world, the privacy of data is paramount, causing people to demand protection of their data on social media sites, for example.  But there is a far more critical sector that is not undergoing the same scrutiny when it comes to data and information – the health sector. The health sector is an interesting case study in technological disparity. On one end of the scale, there are robot surgeons, but within the same hospital, there can still be fax machines. The health sector, despite its attempts to modernize and…

Bitcoin ‘Patient Zero’ Claims BTC Has 50% Chance Of Succeeding: Rally To $1 Million

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The Bitcoin Rally To $1 Million Bitcoin’s diehards have long seen $1 million as the holy grail for the BTC price. John McAfee, for instance, proudly claimed that if BTC doesn’t reach seven figures by the end of 2020, he would consume his own family jewels… and record it too. While many took McAfee as a joke, claiming that this was just a publicity stunt, he has since doubled, tripled, etc. down on this ‘bet’, taking to public forums to claim that Bitcoin reaching this astronomical price figure is totally…

Bitcoin ‘Patient Zero’ Claims BTC Has 50% Chance Of Succeeding: Rally To $1 Million

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The Bitcoin Rally To $1 Million Bitcoin’s diehards have long seen $1 million as the holy grail for the BTC price. John McAfee, for instance, proudly claimed that if BTC doesn’t reach seven figures by the end of 2020, he would consume his own family jewels… and record it too. While many took McAfee as a joke, claiming that this was just a publicity stunt, he has since doubled, tripled, etc. down on this ‘bet’, taking to public forums to claim that Bitcoin reaching this astronomical price figure is totally…

Blog: Why the right of access to patient data needn’t be a headache for GPs

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7 March 2019 A patient’s right to access their own medical records from their GP is a long-established principle supported and strengthened by data protection law, most recently the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under the updated data protection regime a patient’s request to access their records (commonly known as a subject access request (SAR) must now be processed free of charge and within one month. Requests on the rise Medical practices have reported a significant rise in SARs since the GDPR came into effect in May last year, which…

Blockchain Startup to Boost Patient Safety and Prevent Overprescribing

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A blockchain solution has unveiled bold plans to make the United Kingdom’s medicine market safer by creating a system that prevents patients from ordering the same prescription from multiple pharmacies while stopping counterfeit drugs from making their way into the supply chain. MediConnect states that introducing new safeguarding for the public and the health care industry can save money and potentially lives. The motivation for the startup came after the company’s founders discovered the extent and impact of oversupply via the National Health Service (NHS) and private health care providers.…

Blockchain is Boosting the Health Sector by Unifying Patient Data and Increasing Funding for Medical Research

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People are living longer in the 21st Century, but what’s less recognized is that, despite our increasing longevity, we’re also getting sicker. According to research, the number of people over 65 afflicted with at least four medical conditions is on course to rise by 100 percent by 2035. As can be imagined, such a jump in illness is going to place an increasingly heavy burden on medical institutions and services, with the implication being that we — as a global community — need to find new, innovative ways of dealing…

Bitcoin ‘Patient Zero’ Says BTC’s Current Stage is Like ‘1992 for The Internet’

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Bitcoin “Patient Zero” Wences Casares, the founder of Bitcoin (BTC) wallet startup Xapo, said that the seminal cryptocurrency may take years to prove successful, in an interview with Bloomberg Oct. 29. In an interview with Bloomberg, Casares argued that BTC is an “intellectual experiment,” and it could be several years before it proves successful. “It may work, it might not work,” said Casares, noting that Bitcoin is in its early stages and that “we are in the equivalent of 1992 for the Internet.” However, Casares suggested that the probability of…