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...
A recent study in South Korea has explored the use of a cryptographic scheme widely used in secure elections to protect patient data used in training AI models.
Researchers from Asan Medical Center have applied homomorphic encryption (HE) to big data gathered from multiple institutions to test a predictive AI model. HE is an encryption method that allows computations on encrypted data.
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Management consulting company Guidehouse announced it is partnering with MobiHealthNews' parent company, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), to measure the current state of Missouri's Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) public health information.
The partners will use the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator (DHI) to survey the Missouri DHSS public health-data...
Australia invests $20M for new health AI projects
The Australian government has awarded 10 AI projects from major universities with nearly A$30 million ($20 million) in total grant funding to improve healthcare access.
These include research from the University of Queensland to trial AI, in tandem with 3D total skin imaging, for early melanoma detection. Another project from the University of...
MediSecure, a provider of a digital prescription platform, is the latest in Australia to fall victim to a major ransomware attack by unidentified actors.
On Thursday, 16 May, the company reported a cyber attack "impacting the personal and health information of individuals" in its system. The company's website and phone lines have since gone offline.
"While we continue to gather more information...
Telehealth and medical transportation company DocGo reported a data breach in an SEC filing on May 7. The company stated it identified a cybersecurity incident in which consumers' protected health information was accessed and acquired regarding the company's U.S. ambulance transportation business.
The company said it took steps to contain and respond to the incident, and no other business lines...
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...
