Storing medical records online with Google

Health Records used against you

I read about this elsewhere and its scary, what if insurers use your medical records to deny you coverage?

Security is a huge concern for me, lets hope this is done right and safely.

Bye Bye privacy (No HIPPA)

Beware! Previous articles have reported that if you put your data in one of these online medical data sites, you may be voluntarilly waiving your HIPPA privacy rights!!

Same old, same old

Douglas - having been in the ASP game and than seeing SaaS become more acceptable even in my own security market, I think that every time we take this model to a new industry there are some folks who cry the sky is falling about potential security risks of information getting into the wrong hands. For the most part the service providers do a better job of securing this data than you would yourself. I have written more about this on my blog here

Very True, Especially Where Wireless is used

And that is in most clinics that have doctors roaming around with tablets on wireless access points. My wife was seeing a couple of physicians that used wireless and I asked them if they knew whether or not the APs had been locked down and what type of security they used.

Both cases said "well we have this guy that takes care of our equipment. I'm sure he's thought about that."

I constantly think he is probably has wireless at home and is one of the "war chalked" APs.

HIPAA just indicates that the clinic should take all means financially available to them and does not indicate one way or another how to configure security on wireless.

Our University docs have the same tablets but the AP's only hit the Internet. To gain access into the back-end where the data exists requires VPN across wireless.

Medical records + everything else

AT&T is working up a similar trial partnership with one or more specific medical institutions. Here's my BIGGEST worry by far: that this information will become part of the database, being built as we speak, under the NSA surveillance program (whose legality is still TBD), and that it could all be put to use in any way, legal or not BECAUSE don't forget that Congress recently passed a law giving telecom companies immunity against prosecution for assisting government in surveillance of whomever is being monitored by the NSA (possibly all of us; still TBD). Once immunity is in place, telecom companies become co-conspirators with the NSA. Perhaps you see where the cynic in ME is going with this.