Professionally speaking, I am a connoisseur of a certain kind of crankiness.
I like to listen to people who don't like the deal we've been handed and are willing to grump about it.
Decorum may make the world turn smoothly, but noisy people make it change. Often, they also make my job more fun.
A lot of people in leadership pay lip service to the ideal that they're open to new ideas, but we all know from experience that many are not.
In the magazine this week are short profiles on four of the squeakiest wheels in healthcare information technology—three physicians and a researcher with a doctorate in sociology. They are Dr. Lawrence Weed, Dr. Scot Silverstein, Dr. Deborah Peel, and Ross Koppel, Ph.D.
Each are self-professed fans of health information technology, but each have bones to pick with current systems and practices.
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As medical records breaches proliferate, most folks in the health IT security community think of encryption as a defensive measure, not a technology to be defended against.
Better think again.
A unit of the Homeland Security Department—created to investigate attacks on critical national infrastructures—is on the cyber trail of a hacker who cracked into the computer server of three northern Illinois surgeons, locking them out of more than 7,000 of their patients' medical records by encrypting them and demanding payment for the decryption key.
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