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Surprised there's no mention on this board - cr


Posted: Aug 23, 2014

of the millions of medical records that were hacked into by Chinese hackers:

"A group of sophisticated Chinese hackers, known for its high-stakes corporate espionage has a history of stealing medical-device blueprints, prescription-drug formulas and other valuable intellectual property from large health-care companies."

http://bloom.bg/1sQpVdV

In the article, it mentions a Franklin, Tennessee company.

 

OMG, this is huge! - anony

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I'm amazed nobody's heard about this, and the source (Bloomberg) is apparently reliable. I checked Snopes, and nothing there.

Hackers - mmmt

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The article clearly names "Community Health Systems, a Franklin, Tennessee-based hospital chain." Not, our ever so benevolent employer, as your lack of company name implies.

who do you suppose does the transcription - for that TN based chain?

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hmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Spheris - CT

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There is no Spheris. - MQ/MModal bought Spheris
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nice try, though
I think they were implying that - Speris became MModal
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So, they were trying to say that MModal does their transcription.

The Franklin TN chain is huge and they brought out - HMA in the past year or so

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