EMRs Will Be More Secure. Won’t They?
This is from USA Today:
It took only a modicum of skill for a cybergang to steal 94 million credit and debit card payment records from the TJX retail chain — and follow that up by hauling in 130 million records from credit card processor Heartland Payment Systems.
Court records reveal that those record-setting break-ins were almost too easy. Even more surprising: The thieves were able to take their sweet time extracting the data, in each case going undetected for more than a year.
One more reason to be cautious about EMRs.
I agree with Bruce, except that his is an understatement.
Within a few minutes, I can walk to an ATM almost anywhere in the world and with a simple 4-digit PIN code, I can access my bank accounts.
I don’t know anything about the security behind ATMs, but it seems to work fine. Why can’t someone figure out something similar for electronic medical records?
Somehow, this doesn’t surprise me.