Executive Briefings | March 23, 2015
Are EHR Vendors Holding Patient Data Hostage?
A couple years ago, we reported on hackers who stole and encrypted consumer medical records and demanded payment to “release” the records (see A New Twist: EHR Extortion). This is clearly a criminal act – along with the very significant hacking of health care recordkeeping systems that has appeared in the popular press over the past few months – Premera Blue Cross Healthcare Breach Affects 11 Million, <a href="http://www.post-gazette . . .