Morning Headlines 2/9/17
VA ‘confident we’re going to commercial’ for EHR, scheduling fixes
During a House Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing Tuesday, Acting VA CIO Robert Thomas reported that he was confident the agency would eventually migrate to an off-the-shelf EHR system.
DOD plugs in new electronic health record system
DoD goes live with its first Cerner site at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington.
Data breach at Verity Health could have affected 10,000 patients
Verity Health reports that the website of one of its hospitals was hacked between October 2015 and January 2017, potentially exposing the records of 10,000 patients.
Fitbit Faces Criminal Probe Into Jawbone Trade Secret Theft
Jawbone’s ongoing lawsuit against rival Fitbit intensifies as new court filings suggest that Fitbit is also under a criminal investigation for trade secret theft.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.