Morning Headlines 10/23/17
athenahealth’s CEO Jonathan Bush on Q3 2017 Results
Athenahealth shares jump 8 percent on news of the company’s layoffs and cost reduction plan. In its earnings call, CEO Jonathan Bush attributes slow sales to “lackluster market conditions in the post-Meaningful Use era.”
FirstHealth Computer Network Threatened by Malware Virus
On Tuesday, a ransomware attack at FirstHealth of the Carolinas forces end users onto downtime procedures. Security analysts have identified the malware as a new form of the “WannaCry” virus.
The former CTO of a Cleveland Clinic Innovations spinoff is arrested on fraud charges just nine days after the former director of Cleveland Clinic innovations Gary Fingerhut was arrested in connection with the same scheme.
I'm generally in favor of fairness and withholding judgment. However, in the context of the Oracle EHR's $100b of waste,…