Morning Headlines 9/21/16
In England, private doctors are combating long wait times by offering telehealth visits paid for by the NHS.
McAfee says that ransomware hackers target hospitals because they oversee a perfect intersection of “legacy systems and medical devices with weak security, plus the life and death need for immediate access to information.”
FDA launches competition to spur innovative technologies to help reduce opioid overdose deaths
The FDA launches a developer challenge to encourage the development of an app that would help fight the growing opioid epidemic by connecting “ those experiencing an overdose with the potentially life-saving antidote.”
WebMD CEO Departs By ‘Mutual Agreement’ With Company
WebMD announces that it will replace its CEO David Schlanger with its president since 2013, Steven Zatz.
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