Pulse+IT's weekly weekend round-up of international health IT and eHealth news:
More than half of hospitals hit with ransomware in last 12 months
Healthcare IT News ~ Tom Sullivan ~ 07/04/2016
As many as 75 percent of U.S. hospitals responding to a poll this week could have been hit with ransomware in the last year, according to the new Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Analytics Quick HIT Survey: Ransomware, and a chunk of those might not even know it.
GP IT suppliers agree to standard open APIs
Digital Health News ~ Rebecca McBeth ~ 07/04/2016
England’s four principal GP IT system suppliers are committed to developing standard open APIs and are working on a plan detailing when they will be released, NHS England has said.