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Bluesight
Company blog · protenus.com/blogsecurityhealth
Bluesight is the company blog at protenus.com, writing about security and health. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “A Virtual Goldmine: Why Criminals Target Patient Data (Part 2)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Protenus blog posts on why criminals target patient data, covering black-market sale of health records and other uses. One comment is a job listing from the company.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hospital intelligence technology to simplify hospital and pharmacy operations, finances, and compliance. See us in action today.
Most-linked posts?
- A Virtual Goldmine: Why Criminals Target Patient Data (Part 2)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-04-27
What Hacker News says?
Protenus | Senior Security Engineer | Full-time | Baltimore, MD or Remote | https://www.protenus.com/ Protenus is paving the way in healthcare with a leading, comprehensive approach to compliance analytics. Providing healthcare leaders full insight into how health data is being used, and alerting privacy, security and compliance teams to inappropriate activity, Protenus helps our partner hospitals make decisions abo…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted Why Criminals Target Patient Data as a story · 74 points
HN discussionThe lead(lede) is burried in part 2 https://www.protenus.com/blog/a-virtual-goldmine-why-crimina... the tl;dr is Sell patient info repeatedly on the black market, using the profits to fund other activities Obtain expensive medical equipment, prescriptions, or procedures Commit tax fraud Expose or blackmail specific individuals, such as politicians or celebrities Receive medical care Undergo surgery Purchase or sell…
Comment linking /blog/a-virtual-goldmine-why-criminals-target-patient-data-part-2
on “Why Criminals Target Patient Data”Submitted A Virtual Goldmine: Why Criminals Target Patient Data (Part 2) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe answer is in part 2 https://www.protenus.com/blog/a-virtual-goldmine-why-crimina...
Comment linking /blog/a-virtual-goldmine-why-criminals-target-patient-data-part-2
on “Why Criminals Target Patient Data”