Morning Headlines 6/2/21
CompuGroup Medical acquires VISUS Health IT
CompuGroup Medical acquires Germany-based PACS and healthcare content management vendor Visus Health IT.
147,000+ May Have Had Personal Information Compromised in Cyberattack: Scripps Health
Scripps Health (CA) begins notifying patients that their data may have been compromised in the May 1 ransomware attack that forced its IT systems offline for several weeks.
Healthcare tech firm Clarity Informatics sold to fast-growing firm
Clarity Informatics, whose back office software is used by 80% of GPs in England, is acquired by medical practice software vendor Agilio Software.
GPs warn over plans to share patient data with third parties in England
Doctors in England warn the public about NHS Digital’s plan to extract the medical data of 55 million people in de-identified form to a database that will be made available for third-party research and planning.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.