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.
Google is once again overhauling its ambitious health efforts. But this time around, some experts see its shakeup as less of a stumbling block than a potential path to progress. Less than three years after relaunching its ambitious health care division, Google Health, the tech giant is dismantling the organization and spreading its health efforts across the company.
A network of hospitals and clinics in Ohio and West Virginia was forced to cancel surgeries and divert patients with emergencies to other facilities after it was hit in a ransomware attack this week. Cybercriminals struck Memorial Health System, a nonprofit that runs three hospitals, outpatient service sites and clinics spread across southeastern Ohio and northwestern West Virginia, early Sunday morning.
Google Health VP David Feinberg will become the CEO and president of electronic health records company Cerner in October, taking over for current CEO Brent Shafer, Cerner announced on Thursday. Feinberg had previously led Google’s health care initiatives since 2018 in a role that was created when he was hired.