Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending June 9: US health data breach spreads to three lab test groups, WannaCry still a threat to health systems, NHS App Library, HIMSS says FHIR R4 should be requirement, Skype doctors for home care, core cancer data elements, US needs unique health identifier, software-as-a-medical-device
Quest Diagnostics: data on 12 million patients exposed
Healthcare Info Security ~ Marianne Kolbasuk McGee ~ 03/06/2019
A data breach at American Medical Collection Agency has affected nearly 12 million patients who had lab tests performed by Quest Diagnostics.
LabCorp data also compromised by breach at AMCA
Health Data Management ~ Joseph Goedert ~ 05/06/2019
LabCorp, a major medical testing firm, is the latest entity to be embroiled in the huge data breach experienced by Quest Diagnostics.
