SECURITY BRIEFS: 😔600+ healthcare data breaches exposed over 40 MILLION patient records last year. 💸The average cost of a healthcare data breach is $10.1 MILLION!

The natural result of federal HIPAA rule (ended patient consent over sharing of medical records and allowed digitization) and the 2009 federal electronic health record mandate (forced doctors and hospitals to have a government-approved EHR and use it "meaningfully" to receive… https://t.co/qFYm03fDTZ

— Twila Brase, RN, PHN, Author (@twilabrase) April 29, 2025

Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth About Electronic Health Records, Twila Brase, 2018.  

from Amazon, 

There are serious dangers lurking behind the government's $30 billion electronic health record (EHR) experiment. This omnipresent technology turns doctors into data clerks and shifts attention from patients to paperwork--while health plans, government agencies, and the health data industry profit. Patients who think the HIPAA ''privacy'' rule protects the confidentiality of their medical information will be shocked to discover it makes their medical records an open book.

Inside this book, discover:
- how Congress forced doctors to install surveillance in the exam room
- hard facts from over 125 studies and reports about the impact of EHRs on medical care, costs, patient safety, and more
- how patient treatment decisions are controlled (and tracked) by the EHR
- what specific steps back to freedom, privacy, and patient safety are available, and why we must act now.

"You need to brush up on your policies so that you know how to handle a dead baby."

Michelle Gershman, RN in Fresno, CA👆 pic.twitter.com/Cr561hcju5

— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) November 26, 2022

Michelle Gershman RN explains how her hospital went from 1-2 stillbirths per month to 20 per month after the rollout.  The hospital told her how to deal with the increase in infant deaths per month by writing an email to her and the staff, 

You need to brush up on your policies so that you know how to handle a dead baby.

Michelle is a nurse in Fresno, CA, and she's been interviewed about her practice as well as what happened to her mom in the hospital following a diagnosis of COVID-19.  Apparently, her mom was given Remdesivir.