Morning Headlines 3/16/16
Hospital data breach patients to receive settlement checks
St. Joseph Health (CA) settles a class action suit from 31,000 patients whose personal health information was left unsecure and accessible over the Internet. The health system will pay $15 million, of which $7.5 million will go to lawyers and $242 will be distributed to each patient.
NTT seen offering $3.5bn for Dell’s IT services ops
Japan-based NTT Data is expected to offer $3.52 billion to buy Perot Systems IT service business from Dell.
NYC’s $764M medical records system will lead to ‘patient death’: insiders
The New York Post cites anonymous insiders warning that NYC Health + Hospitals’ $764 million Epic system, scheduled to go live April 2, will crash and eventually cause patient harm and death.
Chinese hackers behind U.S. ransomware attacks – security firms
Executives at four security firms suspect that Chinese-government supported hackers are behind the recent rise in increasingly sophisticated ransomware attacks.
Think about how bad Amwell leadership must be. They were handed such an opportunity and they fumbled so hard.