Data leak at Máxima Medical Center turns out to be a piece of paper found on the street – IT Pro – News

Such a typical case where all kinds of managers meet and all kinds of new measures are announced. What makes no one happy, costs loads of money, deaths are caused by the slow processes and bureaucracy.

And just because one piece of paper accidentally ended up on the street. The news item is already too much attention for this

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I agree with you that this case has received a lot of attention in relation to what is going on.
It is difficult to indicate from the outside what went wrong, if you can say it that way.
Technically, it is a data breach and must therefore be reported.
If it had been in the news that the hospital had not reported a data breach, the fuss would have been even greater.

It would probably have been better if it had been made clear from the first moment that it was only a small note. The question is whether that was possible at the time. Since it concerns medical information, everyone will have been super reluctant to give information. It could also have played a role that it seems to have happened around Christmas, then the occupancy is often lower anyway or you are left with substitutes or incomplete teams, so that things go a little less smoothly than usual. And before Christmas, everyone in IT is super nervous about malware and other digital attacks.
And then covid19 comes in again.

I think in the end the hospital acted well, better to report too much than too little. But I do hope that there is a good manager there who knows how to put it in the right perspective, because human errors are part of it. (By the way, it may still be the case that something is clumsily organized so that people have to go out on the street with these kinds of notes or something, but we can’t say anything meaningful about that.

[Reactie gewijzigd door CAPSLOCK2000 op 5 januari 2022 15:35]

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