Providers generate roughly 137 terabytes of data every day. Most of it is unstructured data, which can be hard to work with in healthcare if there is no data management plan in place.
In a data breach notification filed with the Maine attorney general’s office, NextGen Healthcare confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of 1.05 million patients, including approximately 4,000 Maine residents. In a letter sent to those affected, NextGen Healthcare said that hackers stole patients’ names, dates of birth, addresses and Social Security numbers.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler about the privacy issues individuals face if they use Amazon's new healthcare service, Amazon Clinic.
The Summit Pick, the tournament's equivalent of a fan favorite, went to Xin Zhang, a distinguished professor of engineering at Boston University who presented her group's 3D-printed helmet that makes magnetic resonance imaging, 'crisper, faster, cheaper, and safer.'
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is making sweeping updates to its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to better integrate areas like supply chain risk management and governance.