Patient Data

Amazon Wants Alexa To Track Medicine, Provide Health Data
Amazon Wants Alexa To Track Medicine, Provide Health Data
April 08, 2019  |  Alexa

Amazon.com is aiming to enable Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, to keep tabs on customers’ medicine and provide personal health updates. As part of an...

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Good Healthcare Requires Good Data — And Blockchain And Biometrics, Too?
Good Healthcare Requires Good Data — And Blockchain And Biometrics, Too?
February 06, 2019  |  Healthcare

This isn’t some cheap dose of “Little House on the Prairie” nostalgia, but rather a shot of truth: We are a long way from small-town...

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Hospital Cyberattacker Receives 10-Year Prison Sentence
Hospital Cyberattacker Receives 10-Year Prison Sentence
January 11, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for a cyberattack that disrupted Boston Children’s Hospital‘s network for two weeks. Reuters...

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Facebook Tables Health Data Research Project
Facebook Tables Health Data Research Project
April 16, 2018  |  Facebook

After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal raised privacy concerns, Facebook reportedly tabled a proposal to work with multiple U.S. hospitals on a research project. The...

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