Be very afraid. Hospital and medical devices have been found to be infected by a computer worm (kind of like a virus), reports this Mercury News article, Conficker worm hits hospital devices, "A computer worm that has alarmed security experts around the world has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries, according to technologists monitoring the threat." What I find so disturbing in the article is, "the working group has seen thousands of other machines located in hospitals reach out to the Conficker mastermind by contacting another computer on the Internet for instructions." The potential danger could be leaking of your health information, or the medical devices could be recruited as robots in an attack on other computer systems. Isn't technology grand!?
Monday, May 4, 2009
Medical Devices Infected By The Conficker PC Worm
Friday, July 4, 2008
Free Health Resources on KP.org (Kaiser Permanente)
Updated March 18, 2018
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I still can't get over my excitement about Kaiser Permanente (KP) piloting a personal health record feed to Microsoft HealthVault (a HealthNews news article). Here's what this means, if the pilot is successful. KP members will be able to have all their Kaiser health information, like lab results, doctor visit summaries, allergies, medications, and more, fed from Kaiser to the MS HealthVault. Once the health info is in HealthVault, it means the member can access this whenever they want, and it's essentially portable. This is important as we hurtle forward towards adopting and implementing national standards for having portable health records. I'm eager to hear how this pilot progresses.
While I'm at it, I should mention that Kaiser Permanente has an excellent website: http://www.kp.org/ It gets a lot of awards, and though some features are hidden behind a secure sign-on, a lot of free KP.org resources can be used, even if you're not a member. Check out their drug, natural medicine, and health encyclopedias, health tools, etc. For more free online health resources, check out Most Popular and Top Ranked Online Health Resources.
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Google Health versus Microsoft HealthVault
Google Health - securely store & manage your health information online
Microsoft HealthVault - puts you in control of your health information
Microsoft HealthVault and Kaiser Permanente to try health-records sharing (news article)
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