Morning Headlines 1/29/18

Outcome Health’s Update to our Customers

Outcome Health co-founders Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal step down from their management roles as part of a settlement with investors who had claimed that the company misled them about its performance.

Allscripts says all services restored after ransomware attack; lawsuit filed over outage

Allscripts says it has restored all systems after its January 18 SamSam ransomware attack. Meanwhile, Surfside Non-Surgical Orthopedics (FL) files a class action complaint against Allscripts, saying the outage caused it to lose revenue and spend money coordinating with patients.

Google is using 46 billion data points to predict the medical outcomes of hospital patients

Google AI researchers publish their work on extracting full EHR data from 215,000 hospitalized patients to successfully predict in-hospital deaths, unplanned readmissions, prolonged stays, and discharge diagnoses.