Local (Colorado Springs) But not
important enough to make the evening news? No indication of “when”
they discovered the breach/loss.
By Dissent,
November 9, 2012
Memorial Hospital (University of
Colorado Health) issued the following statement
on November 6:
Memorial Hospital
has discovered that laboratory reports containing a certain amount of
health information for 6,400 patients are missing. The laboratory
reports are used for processing billing and charges for laboratory
services, not for clinical care.
There is no
evidence the missing records have been disclosed to or used by
unauthorized individuals.
The reports cover
lab work done between May 1, 2012 and Aug. 31, 2012. The missing
reports contain the patient’s name, Memorial internal account
numbers (these were not credit card numbers), dates and the type of
lab work that was completed. Results from the lab work were not part
of the missing reports. Also, demographic information and Social
Security Numbers were not contained in the missing lab reports,
making the risk of identity theft low.
Upon discovering
that the reports were lost, Memorial conducted an immediate and
thorough investigation. Investigators, however, have been unable to
determine how the records were lost or what became of them. The
information contained in the reports remains available in the
patients’ electronic medical records for purposes of medical care
and treatment.
… Patients who
have concerns related to this incident are asked to call
1-866-283-9930
Also local, but this could be more fun.
Part
Incubator, Workspace & Code School, Galvanize Wants To Turn
Denver Into A Startup Hub; Uber, Forkly & More Already On Board
… The latest initiative is
Galvanize, a
30,000-square-foot workspace for digital startups that recently
opened in downtown Denver. While most of Colorado’s
entrepreneurial energy emanates from Boulder, the Galvanize founders
are on a mission to bring Denver into the conversation by creating a
shared workspace that will accommodate over 300 individuals and
approximately 60 to 70 startups once it’s fully operational.
Jim Deters, the founder and Managing
Director of Galvanize, tells us that the idea was inspired by other
national startup communities and workspaces like RocketSpace
in San Francisco and 1871
in Chicago. It offers support and office space for every phase of
the business development process, from a shared area for small,
one-or-two person teams in the ideating phase to suites for 10-person
startups.
… That’s why the workspace is
also adding an experiential and community-based education platform
called gSchool that offers an intensive six-month course designed to
take those with zero coding experience and turn them into legit,
professional web developers. The class has been created in
partnership with JumpstartLab, a Washington, D.C.-based firm led by
Jeff Casimir that runs Hungry Academy for Living Social. The program
is similar to that
of Dev Bootcamp in San Francisco, except for the fact that these
services are offered from within the Galvanize community.
And the best part: Because Deters,
Casimir and team want to put their money where their mouths are,
they’ve decided that students graduating from
gSchool must receive a job offer within three months of graduating
from the program, or they’ll get their money back.
(Which admittedly is a lot, considering the price of
admission is $20K/person.)
Never leave technology to the Liberal
Arts majors...
"Many talking heads have
attributed Obama's success to an unmatched
'ground game.' Now, inside reports from campaign volunteers
suggest that Project
Orca, a Republican, tech-based voter monitoring effort with
37,000 volunteers in swing states, turned out to be an
epic failure due to dismal IT. Problems ranged
from state-wide
incorrect PINs, to misleading and delayed information packets
delivered to volunteers, to a
server outage and missing redirection of secure URLs."
Something does not ring true.
(Although, now he does not have to testify about the attack n Lybia)
"After serving as Director of
the CIA since September 2011, David Petraeus resigned
from his position today, November 9. The retired four-star Army
general has cited an extramarital affair as reason for the
resignation. Michael Morell will now serve as Acting Director of the
CIA."
Perspective Is Google leading or
following?
…
According to a note to investors from Morgan Stanley, three Google
executives presented at the 2012 Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco
and spoke about the future of the company and where it’s headed.
… During the presentation, there
were some bullet points said that are worthy of a mention. First,
the execs said that Google is now considering themselves a “mobile
first” company. Steiber also mentioned that he thinks mobile will
be the primary way people access Google in 2013. Varela believes
that total mobile traffic to YouTube
may soon surpass 50%.
The execs also brought up a couple of
statistics to prove their points. They mentioned that mobile
searches have increased by 200% in 2012 so far, and 25% of traffic on
YouTube, as well as 40% of video views come from mobile devices,
which is up a staggering 300% in 2012.
For those times when you really ,
really don't want your messages intercepted.
… While people won’t have
immediate access to encrypted files, they may eventually find a brute
force way to decrypt it, or they may force you to share the password
and encryption algorithm. For cases like those, you’ll not only
want to encrypt, but hide the data. But hiding data isn’t easy
because it can’t simply vanish while still existing on your storage
medium. Instead, you’ll want to hide it inside another file.
The bits I find interesting...
… Kudos to Udacity
for making their lecture videos downloadable
via YouTube under a Creative Commons license
(CC-BY-NC-ND).
[A partial list from
their website:
- CS101 - Intro to Computer Science: Building a Search Engine
- ST101 - Intro to Statistics: Making Decisions Based on Data
- CS215 - Algorithms: Crunching Social Networks
- CS222 - Differential Equations: Making Math Matter
- CS253 - Web Application Engineering: How to Build a Blog
- CS259 - Software Debugging: Automating the Boring Tasks
- CS262 - Programming Languages: Building a Web Browser
- CS212 - Design of Computer Programs: Programming Principles
- CS313 - Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
- CS373 - Artificial Intelligence: Programming a Robotic Car
- CS387
- Applied Cryptography: The Science of Secrets
… Pearson unveiled
Project
Blue Sky this week, an OER search engine (that also happens to
turn up proprietary Pearson content in its search results). Blue
skies indeed. More details via Inside
Higher Ed. [Still, with over 2,000,000 items,
you probably can find something useful Bob]
… Macmillan
announced this week that it would stop printing dictionaries.
Starting next year, the Macmillan Dictionary will be online-only.
[Making old dictionaries collectable? Bob]
… Jim
Groom reports that the University of Mary Washington project
Domain of One’s Own has been fully funded —
awesome news as giving students their own digital domain and teaching
them the skills to manage their own online identities and data is one
of the most important projects in education.
Free is good!
NPR's Car Talk announces the results of
their (much more amusing) “election” NOTE: My favorite includes
the word “Lawyer!”
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