Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending March 25:
Price tag for new VA EHR now totals nearly $16B
Health Data Management ~ Greg Slabodkin ~ 22/03/2018
The Cerner electronic health record system that the Department of Veterans Affairs plans to implement over 10 years will cost a total of $15.8 billion, according to the latest VA data provided to Congress.
DHS: some GE imaging devices are vulnerable
Healthcare Info Security ~ Marianne Kolbasuk McGee ~ 19/03/2018
A recent alert from the Department of Homeland Security warning of vulnerabilities in certain medical imaging product lines from GE Healthcare also serves as a reminder to other medical device makers and healthcare entities about the risks posed by hardcoded and default credentials.
