Healthcare insurer Blue Shield of California has notified 4.7 million individuals of a potential data breach after unknowingly sharing patients' protected health information with Google since 2021.
"On February 11, 2025, Blue Shield discovered that, between April 2021 and January 2024, Google Analytics was configured in a way that allowed certain member data to be shared with Google's...
LAS VEGAS - At the 2025 HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition here, Tom Leary, senior vice president and head of government relations at HIMSS, and Jonathan French, senior director of public policy and content development at HIMSS, discussed the organization's role in progressing health technology policy in government.
In their talk, "Forecasting the Global Policy Landscape in 2025," the pair...
In recent months, the Singaporean government has cracked down on erring providers of telemedicine in the country. It was revealed at the start of the year that eight providers were being investigated for improper practice and false advertising – and one already had its license to offer outpatient services revoked.
Amid this growing scrutiny, telehealth company ORA launched what could be...
Digital technology is prevalent in hospitals, according to Bernke Papenburg, program manager of Robotics at Rijnstate Hospital, a 700-bed teaching facility in the eastern Netherlands.
Papenburg noted that very few procedures or care measures performed in a hospital setting do not require digital technology, from patient records and monitoring to diagnostics and treatment.
Still, she says, there...
Dr. Eric Liederman, CEO of CybersolutionsMD, a digital health, privacy, security and IT resilience consultancy, has held informatic leadership roles at health system CommonSpirit Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West), UC Davis Health System and Kaiser Permanente.
Liederman will discuss how to prepare and recover from a major cyberattack at the 2025 HIMSS Global Health Conference and...
MobiHealthNews queried health executives from across the digital health industry and asked them for their insights into key issues impacting health systems and patients.
In part two of this two-part series on the year's biggest takeaways, executives discuss topics ranging from smart monitors to advances in telehealth, wearables and the direct-to-consumer movement.
Amit Khanna, senior vice...
Health Catalyst, a U.S.-based provider of healthcare data and analytics for care organizations, signed a definitive agreement to acquire all equity interests of cybersecurity provider Intraprise Health for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $43 million.
Intraprise offers an end-to-end cybersecurity risk management and services platform, while Health Catalyst's healthcare data and...
Matt Murren, CEO and cofounder of True North ITG, a healthcare IT and cloud service provider, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss how the company helps health systems and venture capital firms ensure cybersecurity within their organization and among potential portfolio companies.
MobiHealthNews: Can you tell our readers about True North?
Matt Murren: We started True North in 2001. We cover...
After opening up its specialty database to researchers globally, the Australian not-for-profit organisation Crohn’s Colitis Cure is now working to reach more people by developing and implementing a mobile application for individuals dealing with inflammatory bowel disease.
Early this year, CCCure launched subscription-based access to its IBD database – said to be one of the largest in the world...
The Royal Australian College of GPs, the peak body for general practices in Australia, has released guidance for practitioners looking to adopt AI scribes to support clinical documentation.
An AI scribe captures audio speech from a clinical encounter to convert it into text that becomes part of a patient's health record.
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RACGP initially suggests developing a policy on...
