Apropos my recent post to this list about the large hazards to confidentiality posed by large, centralised health data repositories [1], see this report of a serious security breach at the data centre of Acxiom, one of the world's largest consumer database companies, with a multi-billion dollar turnover and an undoubtedly large IT security budget: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/business/6483972.htm
Note that it was an insider job - the consensus is that the insider threat model is the one to really worry about, as unpalatable as that is. Tim C [1] The risk of a security breach is no less, and may be much greater in smaller health data repositories, but the collective hazard is less because the records of a much smaller number of people are stored in such smaller repositories. - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
