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I'm surprised that no one ever talks about America's e-prescribing infrastructure getting hacked. Over 99% of all electronic prescriptions are handled by a sing
by pg_bot 8y ago
I'm surprised that no one ever talks about America's e-prescribing infrastructure getting hacked. Over 99% of all electronic prescriptions are handled by a single company (surescripts). It's a massive single point of failure that could cause chaos if they were no longer able to operate. Most states are now moving to make all prescriptions electronic. It seems that not enough people know that this is a problem, but it's also another reason why prescriptions are more expensive than they should be.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoPolitical points lost by allowing a single point of failure < political points gained by talking big about how requiring easily auditable electronic records will reduce prescription drug abuse. I'm still salty about having to get refills every 30 days (down from 90) and having to see my doctor every four months (up from a year).
- Thriptic 8y agoLuckily most other emerging integrations (payer - provider for eligibility checks and coverage decisions, provider - provider for real time medical record transfers, etc) are decentralized by design with a number of large aggregators. While it's possible for basically any company to get access to these networks for a nominal fee and thus facilitate a transient DDOS by flooding the network, it would be relatively easy to drop this traffic and boot them. Also doesn't McKesson have their own interface for electronic prescriptions or am I incorrect?
- pg_bot 8y agoYou are incorrect. https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/surescripts-partners-mckesson https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/surescripts-partners-m...