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Health Care Sector Vulnerable to Hackers
Authored by: PJ on Thursday, December 27 2012 @ 02:34 PM EST
It would be a kindness to write to the author
and tell them what Dropbox is. If you do
it in a friendly way, not in a "how can you
be so stupid?" way, they'll change it and
down the road, you may become a resource that
the author will pay attention to.

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Health Care Sector Vulnerable to Hackers
Authored by: red floyd on Thursday, December 27 2012 @ 03:43 PM EST
This sounds like a HIPAA violation waiting to happen.

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I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *CITIZEN* of the United
States of America.

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Health Care Sector Vulnerable to Hackers
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 27 2012 @ 04:47 PM EST
Don't you think the typo might be in the reading not in the writing.
It doesn't read as if a Dropbox site is a cabinet.

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Health Care Sector Vulnerable to Hackers - Clickie
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 27 2012 @ 05:49 PM EST

"Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers, researchers say"  (Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2012)

"Zero Day: The Treat in Cyberspace"  (Washington Post article series)

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Health Care Sector Vulnerable to Hackers - "cabinet" confusion ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 27 2012 @ 05:59 PM EST
The problem with the "cabinet" quote :
After a Post reporter called about the vulnerabilities, officials at the cabinet manufacturer and the medical center took steps to close the gaps.
is that it needs expansion :
After a Post reporter called about the vulnerabilities, officials at the cabinet manufacturer of the Okla. medicine cabinet and the Univ. of Chicago medical center took steps to close the gaps.
. I hope this helps.

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The "cabinet" in question
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 27 2012 @ 06:51 PM EST
is an OmniCell, not Dropbox.

It is a physical device, placed in a storeroom or even a patient room (generally
not with drugs, but stocked with medical disposables for which it manages access
and inventory; enables automated ordering before you run out of emesis basins,
etc.)

If used for drugs, it usually (at least, in places I've seen) is kept in a
controlled-access location.

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