Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending September 11:
St. Jude lawsuit: Muddy Waters-MedSec report is false, manipulative
FierceHealthcare ~ Dan Bowman ~ 08/09/2016
A lawsuit filed Wednesday by St. Jude Medical Inc. calls accusations leveled against the company by investment firm Muddy Waters Capital and security company MedSec for selling unsecure cardiac devices false and manipulative.
Caldicott: future of patient opt-outs a 'challenge'
Digital Health News ~ Ben Heather ~ 08/09/2016
Existing schemes to allow patients to opt-out of sharing their health data will not be immediately affected by the third Caldicott report but their future is far from assured.
