Paul Han, a physician at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, said telling patients about a confidence interval in risk data introduces ambiguity that prompts many to decide not to make a decision or to decide against a proposed intervention.
Applied Micro Technology uses the vertical blanking interval to allow Internet data to piggyback on a television broadcast at up to five times the speed of a standard modem and telephone line.
By reading the encrypted data off of two cards and testing thousands of potential site codes against both cards until the decoded data displays a predictable interval between the two, he can find the site code and use it to create more card keys with a magnetizing device.
Such a long interval seriously compromises the ability of adjudicators to retrieve original hospital records, laboratory findings, and other relevant patient data.