Wednesday 20 July 2016

Doctor devises new database methodology to thwart hackers and end big data breaches

Longtime healthcare and technology veteran William Yasnoff, MD, has created a personal grid tactic for tuning relational databases to make it harder for hackers to steal large sets of medical records.

And Yasnoff, a managing partner at NHII Advisors, said that hospital CIOs and CISOs or technology vendors can use the personal grid approach for free. It’s not a product but, rather, a methodology for organizing data within a traditional relational database management system.

“Large-scale security problems – Anthem and Premara and so on – concern the loss of an entire data set with one intrusion,” said Yasnoff, also an adjunct professor of health sciences informatics at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the team that led the work at the Department of Health and Human Services that resulted in the executive order creating the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. For the full article click here 



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