4 posts tagged ‘healthcare’
The Abortion Provider Who Became the Most Hated Woman in New York
The New Yorker,
In nineteenth-century New York, abortion was shrouded in secrecy and stigma. But, for Madame Restell, there was no such thing as bad press.
Hackers accessed sensitive health data of Welltok patients
TechCrunch,
Hackers accessed the personal data of more than a million people by exploiting a security vulnerability in a file transfer tool used by Welltok, the healthcare platform owned by Virgin Pulse. Welltok, a Denver-based patient engagement company that works with healthcare plans to provide communications to subscribers about their healthcare, confirmed in a data breach […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Healthcare startups scramble to assess fallout after Postmeds data breach hits millions of patients
More than two million people across the United States will receive notice that their personal and sensitive health information was stolen earlier this year during a cyberattack at Postmeds, the parent company of online pharmacy startup Truepill. For some of those affected, it’s the first they’re hearing of Postmeds, let alone that the company lost […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Hospitals illegally refusing to provide itemized bills
Boing Boing,
Hospitals are required by law to send an itemized bill on request within 30 days. When Mike Masnick received an $8,455 bill for getting a minor cut stitched in the emergency room, though, Dignity Health/CommonSpirit refused to do so. Masnick reports that it repeatedly ignored verbal requests after promising to fulfill them, sent inappropriate forms with no instructions on how to file them, gave him fake addresses to send it to when he asked, and refused to speak on the record when it learned he was a journalist. — Read the rest