Morning Headlines 1/8/16

Dental Practice Software Provider Settles FTC Charges It Misled Customers About Encryption of Patient Data

Henry Schein Practice Solutions pays $25,000 to settle FTC charges alleging that the encryption used in its Dentrix G5 dental practice management system was not true encryption. Schein also makes the dental solution included in Leidos’ winning DHMSM bid.

Flatiron Health Raises $175 Million Series C Round to Further Bolster its OncologyCloud Software Platform for Providers and Accelerate Personalized Medicine

Oncology software vendor Flatiron Health closes a $175 million Series C funding round led by Roche, bringing its total funding to $313 million since its 2012 launch.

Top 9 issues that will affect physicians in 2016

The American Medical Association lists Meaningful Use, health data security, and the large-scale adoption of telemedicine as some of the top issues that will affect physicians in 2016.

Mayo plans more collaboration with Epic Systems

Mayo Clinic reports that it will only lease a small portion of the data center it recently sold to Epic, but confirmed that Epic will host its EHR platform at a larger data center in Verona.