Am I the only one who has noticed that the very people who told us that electronic voting machines can’t be hacker-proofed are now telling us that electronic medical records will be perfectly safe and secure?
The cognitive dissonance associated with being a contemporary “progressive” must be awful. Perhaps that’s why they still seem so miserable even though their side won the recent election.
As to EMR, the state-of-the-art is still in the 1980s. No one familiar the technology believes electronic medical records can be kept truly secure. Here’s the latest EMR debacle:
The FBI is on the trail of hackers who claim to have accessed the personal information of millions of Virginians. They’re holding the information hostage, and are threatening to dispurse the sensitive data on the Internet if they don’t receive a $10 million ransom.
Is this for real?
Investigators have reason to believe the threats from hackers may be credible; The Virginia Department of Health Professions has confirmed that there was an incident last Thursday where a hacker may have breached system servers.
Even if this turns out to be a bluff, it’s only a matter of time before it really happens. And yet our new masters are determined to force this shoddy technology down our throats.
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