Amid the continuing drumbeat for taxes on global commerce done through digital means, the Czech government has approved a new seven percent digital tax on global Internet firms which will, as Reuters reports, be levied on revenues tied to Czech users across advertising, digital marketplaces...
Technology giants Apple, Microsoft and Google are teaming up with a number of healthcare providers to test out the CARIN Blue Button API. The newly released data model and draft implementation guide will provide patients with digital access to historical health insurance claims data on...
Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL) is the latest victim of a data security breach at the billing collections service American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA). Some 2.2 million patients may have had their names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, dates of service, balance information and treatment...
Patient records numbering around 11.9 million were compromised and exposed in a data breach of an agency that collects money for Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealth Group, according to a report by Bloomberg. Quest revealed the information in a securities filing. It stated that the American...
June 04, 2020
Daily life has been upended by the coronavirus. And where there is uncertainty there is fear. Fear of who’s got the dreaded virus and who may look completely asymptomatic — and who, unwittingly, may be putting countless other people at risk. Shane Bigelow, CEO of Vital Chain, which uses blockchain to help individuals download and […]
July 30, 2019
Technology giants Apple, Microsoft and Google are teaming up with a number of healthcare providers to test out the CARIN Blue Button API. The newly released data model and draft implementation guide will provide patients with digital access to historical health insurance claims data on devices they use every day. CARIN, which was developed by […]
July 17, 2019
Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL) is the latest victim of a data security breach at the billing collections service American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA). Some 2.2 million patients may have had...
June 03, 2019
Patient records numbering around 11.9 million were compromised and exposed in a data breach of an agency that collects money for Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealth Group, according to a report...
March 07, 2019
Epic Systems, a large digital medical records vendor, froze enrollment in its app store because of privacy concerns from third-party developers, according to a report by CNBC. The company created...
