This free webinar, recorded in September, 2017, might be very helpful to small practices or solo practitioners who are feeling overwhelmed about how to start hardening their security to comply with HIPAA and to prevent attacks or breaches. From the AMA: A staggering 83 percent of physicians recently told AMA researchers that their practices have…
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Dubai Plans to DNA Test All 3 Million of Its Residents
Kristen V. Brown reports: In a massively ambitious project aimed at improving the health of its 3 million residents, the city of Dubai plans to sequence the DNA of its entire population. The United Arab Emirates city announced the initiative this month as part of its Dubai 10X Initiative, a bid to implement as soon…
Medic Disciplined after Posting Photo of Soldier’s Severed Body Part
John Vandiver reports: Military medical officials are imposing new social media guidelines after an Army medic at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany posted an operating room photo of a patient’s severed body part. The incident, which occurred in mid-September but was just confirmed Wednesday, provoked unspecified disciplinary action against the medic and a command-wide…
Microsoft looks to lure health-care companies to its cloud with new tools
Dina Bass reports: Microsoft is releasing new cloud technologies to fight disease and help health care companies abide by privacy laws as the software giant looks to win more business as the medical sector moves to internet-based computing. Microsoft unveiled a tool for its Azure service that puts powerful computing resources to the task of gene-analysis for precision medicine…