FIRST, DO NO HARM

摘要

The broad surround of digital technology that supports modern medicine - wasn't supposed to end up this way: Hijacked by rampant concerns about maintaining privacy and even ensuring the safety of care. But medical "infomatics" has proven to have a double edge - it can both save patients' lives while simultaneously putting them at risk as they must manage the long-term effects of their very personal information seeping out into the hands of bad actors. By some accounts, hackers now consider medical data to be more valuable than credit card data; a discovery that is driving information theft at hospitals, clinics and insurance companies. And while it's made great strides, the health care industry is still behind in some tech and information safeguards.