A Maryland healthcare provider will spend nearly $8 million on data security to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from separate data breaches that, in all, affected at least 540,000 individuals. Under the settlement, LifeBridge Health, which operates five hospitals and several medical facilities in the Baltimore area, also has agreed to pay up to […]
About 32% of hospitals and 52% of non-acute providers — such as outpatient clinics, rehabilitation facilities and physicians’ offices — are not encrypting data in transit, according to a new survey. Additionally, only 61% of acute providers and 48% of non-acute providers are encrypting data at rest. This “leaves the door wide open to potential […]
While #google glass hasn’t had the impact that Google had likely hoped it would, a fresh funding round of $16 million raised by Augmedix today suggests it’s far from dead. Augmedix is a startup that launched in 2012, with the aim of providing medical professionals with a Glass-powered electronic #health record solution: A Series A […]
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