Ransomware and incompetence in backups leads to medical data loss...but the thieves were honest thieves!

"An honest thief!" said Caledon Hockley of Jack Dawson, after planting the Heart of the Ocean diamond necklace in Jack's pocke...

Yes, the OS and filesystems on our EHR servers were hacked and our data encrypted for ransom, but "no medical information was looked at or compromised"

On this blog I have an entire series of posts regarding EHR crashes that point out an absurd-on-its-face and, in fact, insulting boilerplate...

Politicians get a very bitter taste of the very same medicine they've forced onto clinicians and the public

This is a case of education - I hope - by fire on electronic information security, and why "going electronic" can be a risky busin...

Weird emails from Independence Blue Cross via its IT outsourcing partners: showing yet more health IT industry trust-destroying incompetence

In the past week I've received two emails that made me highly suspicious of medical/insurance identity theft. The emails came from Indep...

Bad health IT at Medstar Health: FBI probing virus behind outage (And: ka-ching! ka-ching! EHR costs continue their upward spiral)

Once again, a definition of bad health IT: Bad Health IT ("BHIT") is defined as IT that is ill-suited to purpose, hard to use, un...

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center: Negligent hospital IT leaders allow hacker invasion that cripples EHRs, disrupts clinicians ... but patient safety and confidentiality not compromised

To the cybernetic idealists out there who think computers are the greatest thing next to sliced bread in the healthcare environment, I say, ...