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Ooops: Health Net Loses 1.9 Million Patient Data Records
As a reminder that even the best technology still relies on humans not making dumb mistakes, PCMag.com reports that Health Net’s technology partner, IBM, has seemingly lost a few hard drives. Normally not a big deal. Except that these drives contained patient data records of nearly 1.9 million people. What good is encrypted online transmission [...]
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A business thinker asks: what will it take to get traction?
IBM’s “Smarter Planet” blog has picked up e-Patient Dave’s post A Thousand Points of Pain, about how enmeshed and entangled our healthcare system has become, and the implications for people who want to design a transformed system. Dave added a prolog for business audiences. The result is A Business Thinker Asks: What Will It Take [...]
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