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...
Healthcare-focused cybersecurity company Blackwell Security has secured $13 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst and Rally Ventures.
The company, which is a co-creation from General Catalyst and Rally Ventures, also hired Geyer Jones as its first chief executive officer. Jones previously served as chief operating officer at healthcare IoT security company Cylera and chief strategy...
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Singular Health scores 510(k) for 3D DICOM viewer software
ASX-listed medical technology firm Singular Health Group has received a 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for 3Dicom MD.
The software-as-a-medical device allows medical practitioners to collaboratively visualise standard CT/MRI and PET scans in 2D and 3D in real time. It also has built-in voice and text chat and...
PatientSource solution eliminates manual data gathering at Ichilov Hospital
A new electronic patient record (EPR) solution at Ichilov Hospital in Israel has reduced the time it takes clinicians to access patient data from six minutes to six seconds per appointment.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) selected UK vendor PatientSource to build the cloud-based solution, which integrates with hospital IT...
Telehealth use continued to increase overall in 2021, but it has stabilized from the sharper growth curve seen in 2020, according to results from the CHIME Digital Health Most Wired survey.
This year, 26% of healthcare organizations – including acute care, ambulatory care and long-term or post-acute care facilities – reported a quarter or more of their patients had used telehealth. That’s lower...
Australian software company MedicalDirector has introduced its latest cybersecurity solution for healthcare systems.
WHAT IT DOES
According to a press release, the MedicalDirector Shield has six key components to protect a healthcare practice's IT systems and data.
It provides an initial security assessment to spot a system's vulnerabilities to online hacks; a plug-in intrusion detection...
For decades, investors, startups and a broad host of established players have viewed healthcare as ripe for innovation. However, the industry has been challenged by the momentum of the status quo – the scale, complexity, volume and ingrained practices that all need to change to wring out some much-needed efficiency.
As we were taught in physics class, the more momentum something has, the more...
A recent report testing the security capabilities of several mobile health apps highlighted "systemic" shortcomings and vulnerabilities that could lead to the exposure of users' sensitive health and identity information.
Conducted by cybersecurity marketing firm Knight Ink and sponsored by mobile app API security company Approov, the investigation reverse-engineered 30 mobile health apps using an...
