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Northwind said:
It's an online portal where you can find out which meds were prescribed and which doctors you saw basically. No test results or anything at this point
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hmm
i do hope they never put our health records online for us to be able to find

everything is hackable these days
 
Most health authorities have online portals for some things. I can see scan reports and bloodwork along with some appointments on mine. Most hospitals/ doctors offices/etc have electronic health records.
 
A properly done EHR that is centrally managed by security experts who actually know what they are doing would be better than a hodge-podge of systems with controls of varying qualities. Which is what we have right now, at least in Ontario and, it sounds like, BC. One place to look also means only one place to secure. Life Labs pretty much showed what a mess the current system is security-wise.
 
Mendalla said:
A properly done EHR that is centrally managed by security experts who actually know what they are doing would be better than a hodge-podge of systems with controls of varying qualities. Which is what we have right now, at least in Ontario and, it sounds like, BC. One place to look also means only one place to secure. Life Labs pretty much showed what a mess the current system is security-wise.
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Good god, we couldn't have people that are conscious and know what they are doing ... it would go against the brutal emotional type that must win ... no matter what! Thus intellect is disposed into the stratosphere ... unscene light ... back stage?

Thus much of diablos is underground as we couldn't let it come up in normal exchanges ... pa pillion? There's a pill for that too ...
 
Mendalla said:
A properly done EHR that is centrally managed by security experts who actually know what they are doing would be better than a hodge-podge of systems with controls of varying qualities. Which is what we have right now, at least in Ontario and, it sounds like, BC. One place to look also means only one place to secure. Life Labs pretty much showed what a mess the current system is security-wise.
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lol oh my

What happened with Lifelabs?

And yeah, I can see what happens when only part of the security chain is secure...all those 3rd party apps that aren't as secure (that's capitalism, hmm?)

(would.it be possible to make Telehealth as impossible to hack as Banks are? a friend once, using a deck of cards, showed me.how.impossible it was to hack a bank)

And with Telehealth, do you think we have to worry aboot enshittification like has happened with google, Amazon, and FB?
 
Northwind said:
Most health authorities have online portals for some things. I can see scan reports and bloodwork along with some appointments on mine. Most hospitals/ doctors offices/etc have electronic health records.
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Egads!

Yeah, when I was medical transcriptionist I by need could access medical health records...the only thing keeping me in check was ethics and my desire to follow them :3

How good is the security in the hospital/doc office/etc EHR?

It sounds like to me adults wanting to be like USA? Ease over safety?

Do you know when this change happened?

I still. like the paper records :3 Grew up.with that.
 
Delightful Life said:
How good is the security in the hospital/doc office/etc EHR?
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Hospitals are big enough that they should be able to have a proper IT department and security team. Sadly, that does not always seem to be the case.


I have a team of 6 and all have some element of security and data privacy in their job description, plus our parent company has a Manager of Networks and Security and a Security Analyst who we can leverage to help us.

But a doctor's office or other small private clinic? Mostly, they are probably moving to cloud-based EHRs and relying on the cloud provider for security. Which really depends on the provider. MS Azure and Amazon Web Services are becoming more and more security-focussed and they still have the odd breach. So how can you rely on some small company trying to run their own cloud rather than contract with the big boys. And if the small health providers have IT support at all, it's usually a local IT company on contract, not dedicated IT support like I provide at my employer (this is docs in private practice outside a hospital, docs based in hospitals obviously run on the hospital's systems and have the support of hospital IT). I suppose some of the larger family health teams in Ontario might have IT support in place.

Delightful Life said:
Christ!!!
So what kind of info was compromised?
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PII (Personal Identifying Information) mainly, so names, addresses, health ID (health card number in Ontario) and such. Most worrisome is that their login database was compromised since many people still don't use different passwords for different sites or MFA (multifactor authentication). I know they forced all customers to reset their passwords after it happened. The good (for certain values of "good") news is that no PHI (Personal Health Information) like actual lab results was involved. Here's the statement from Lifelabs website.

Am I Impacted? – LifeLabs

customernotice.lifelabs.com customernotice.lifelabs.com

Let's be honest, this is the kind of s**t that keeps folks like me up at night and our organizations are actually working hard to prevent it. But my experience has been that not all health organizations, even large ones, are prepared or have people dedicated to doing that worrying.
 
Mendalla said:
Ransomware attack with data leakage. It was all over the news, I thought. There's actually a class action settlement that I qualify for since I use LifeLabs.
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I just submitted my claim. I had several visits to LifeLabs in 2019. I use the hospital satellite lab now.
 
Northwind said:
I use the hospital satellite lab now.
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Read the CBC article I posted. Even hospitals aren't immune, sadly. We had five hospitals that shared an IT department compromised in SW Ontario, at least two of which my company has business relationships with.
 
Mendalla said:
Read the CBC article I posted. Even hospitals aren't immune, sadly. We had five hospitals that shared an IT department compromised in SW Ontario, at least two of which my company has business relationships with.
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I have to get regular bloodwork. I use the sat lab because it gets to the doctor and pharmacy quicker. I am well in the system so can't really reduce the risk. Hopefully the fact the hospital is part of a larger health authority helps a bit.


I had an interaction at our local Life Labs that turned me off them. It had nothing to do with their IT system. It was a rude staff member.
 
And ape picked up an unwanted souvenir. Been sick since yesterday and came up positive on a rapid test this evening. My doctor has an after hours clinic in the morning so will see them about paxlovid. Mostly cold like symptoms (sinus congestion and inflammation, some coughing) but with a fever which is why I tested.
 
Mendalla said:
And ape picked up an unwanted souvenir. Been sick since yesterday and came up positive on a rapid test this evening. My doctor has an after hours clinic in the morning so will see them about paxlovid. Mostly cold like symptoms (sinus congestion and inflammation, some coughing) but with a fever which is why I tested.
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too bad you can't find oot what strain it is

that'd be kinda cool

rest well, dear friend

don't forget to let your belle pamper you
 
We were put off by potential paxlovid side effects and didn't opt for it. We were sick for 3 or 4 days. (More like the flu than a cold.) We had coughs that persisted for a while afterwards.
 
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