A government watchdog says the Veterans Affairs Department has been sending sensitive data—including electronic health records—over unencrypted networks, making them vulnerable to theft or misuse.
Telecom
Mar 7, 2013
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The UK government has decided to hold off on plans to upload GP records onto a central database for six months. But it may have to drop the plan permanently unless it can provide satisfactory answers to the uncomfortable ...
Internet
Mar 6, 2014
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The first three weeks of July 2023 have been the hottest global three-week period so far. In the summer months of 2023, twice as many people in Germany were exposed to daily temperatures of 35 degrees and higher than the ...
Environment
Aug 24, 2023
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Researchers from the Collaborative Research Center CROSSING at Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) have developed a solution that will ensure decades of safe storage for sensitive health data in a joint project with ...
Security
Nov 7, 2018
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About a quarter of children in the United States are born two to three weeks before their due date, which qualifies them as "early term." Pregnancies typically last 40 weeks, so you might think that being born two to three ...
Environment
Dec 3, 2019
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California's attorney general says as many as three in five Californians may have had electronic records stolen last year.
Security
Feb 16, 2016
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To speed development and adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) for pediatrics, a group of experts from industry, academia and government convened by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has focused ...
Other
Mar 6, 2013
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Fines and fees are standard procedure in the criminal justice system—and the greater an accused person's involvement, from challenging a traffic ticket to a felony conviction, the higher the costs.
Social Sciences
May 13, 2019
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Teachers in England are struggling. A recently released government report on the working lives of teachers found that teachers' well-being levels are lower than the general population. More than half of the 11,177 teachers ...
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2023
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Greece is facing its hottest July weekend in 50 years, a top meteorologist warned Friday as the country wilts under a prolonged heat wave set to last well into next week.
Environment
Jul 21, 2023
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