On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a guidance bulletin (the "Guidance") to health care providers reminding them of their compliance obligations under California’s health data privacy laws, and urging providers to take proactive steps to protect against cybersecurity threats.
Peter Hotez, a vaccine researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine, and colleagues at Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development have created a COVID-19 vaccine called Corbevax that uses traditional vaccine technology over the newer, more expensive technology.
As businesses across industries rely more and more on technology, C-suites are asking tech teams to drive significant improvements in companies’ operations—but tech leaders are often asked to do so with what amounts to a shoestring budget. Ultimately, that often means finding better, less costly solutions for current processes to free up funds for developing or purchasing the new technology to support innovation.
The law firm Goodwin Proctor notified Beaumont Health in February that patient data shared by the hospital with legal counsel may have been entangled in the wide-reaching hack through the firm’s use of Accellion. Beaumonth Health is a network of health facilities that reported $4.58 billion in total revenue for 2020.
A new article published last week in the European Heart Journal discusses the use of drones for delivering life-saving automated external defibrillators (AED) to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients.