Morning Headlines 9/5/16
Apple will now start screening medical and health apps more closely
Apple updates its App Store Review Guidelines with new, more stringent language that confirms the company will begin scrutinizing apps that offer inaccurate medical advice or diagnostic tools.
EDPA names 2016 Alabama Innovation Awards winners at state conference
The Economic Development Partnership of Alabama names Birmingham-based digital health startup IllumiCare as its Innovator of the Year for developing an EHR hover bar that gives physicians real-time, patient-specific risk and cost data.
Computer hackers demanded ransom payment from Derriford Hospital
In England, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust’s Derriford Hospital is hit with ransomware.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.