Category: patient records

Google is reportedly gathering health data on millions of Americans

Post author By Randall
Post date November 11, 2019
Categories In ascension, Data Privacy, Google, health, health records, healthcare, hippa, hospital, medical records, medicine, patient records, personal information, Privacy, project nightingale, Security, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] The effort has been dubbed “Project Nightingale,” and a person familiar with the matter told WSJ that at least 150 Google employees have access to data on tens of millions of patients. Google is reportedly using the data to design new, AI-driven software. While this may feel like an invasion of privacy, the Health […]

32 million patient records were breached in the first half of 2019

Post author By Randall
Post date July 31, 2019
Categories In breach, dark web, data, data breach, exposed, gear, Hack, hacked, hackers, Internet, medical records, medicine, patient records, protenus, Security, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] The Protenus’ 2019 Mid-Year Breach Barometer Report found that 60 percent of all breaches were due to hacking, including the single largest breach. In that incident, hackers targeted a medical collections agency and obtained the data of roughly 20 million patients, including those who’d used LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics. Their data was found for […]