A billion medical images are exposed online
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A billion medical images are exposed online
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#3The key takeaway from that article, for me, is that the government body that is supposed to monitor, enforce, and penalize organizations who fail to follow the HIPAA rules is basically doing nothing.
So with no consequence to these massive lapses, why would these companies care?
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NHS has plenty of data breaches.
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#5Sensitive data should be thrown away and the medical images could improve on the current state of the art medical image database used for machine learning.
I'd be more than happy to publish my medical images with results if it would be used for an open database.
I have been at doctors in third world countries, where doctors don't get the same level of education, but try to use the best tools available without paying too much money.
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#7 % curl -L 'https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/10/medical-images-exposed-pacs/'
curl: (7) Failed to connect to guce.advertising.com port 443: Connection refused
I have a lying DNS server, and it's getting ridiculous.
Here's the outline for people who care about privacy/tracking/GDPR, etc. https://outline.com/Ep5u4K
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#8It feels like the places where security is of utmost importance like in banking, security cards or health are the worst at doing it.
At least, lack of security of credit cards is understandable as banks are profiting from fraud by charging the victim a fee.
In health? This must stop. It's a failure of regulatory bodies as they throw so much junk policies around that the things that really require attention is just overlooked. The overabundance of paperwork and policies is not improving security, it's keeping away actors that could do way better.
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#9% curl -L 'https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/10/medical-images-exposed-pacs/' curl: (7) Failed to connect to guce.advertising.com port 443: Connection refused WTF? I have a lying DNS server, and it's getting ridiculous. Here's the outline for people who care about privacy/tracking/GDPR, etc. https://outline.com/Ep5u4K
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#10Sensitive data should be thrown away and the medical images could improve on the current state of the art medical image database used for machine learning. I'd be more than happy to publish my medical images with results if it would be used for an open database. I have been at doctors in third world countries, where doctors don't get the same level of education, but try to use the best tools available without paying…
Define sensitive data.
One of the challenges is that just deleting a name, say, doesn't necessarily fully anonymize a medical record/image. In general, I actually agree with you but anonymization/privacy is a challenging problem.