Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending September 4:
Carson Block's attack on St Jude reveals a new front in hacking for profit
Bloomberg ~ Jordan Robertson ~ 26/08/2016
When a team of hackers discovered that St. Jude Medical Inc.’s pacemakers and defibrillators had security vulnerabilities that could put lives at risk, they didn’t warn St. Jude. Instead, the hackers, who work for cybersecurity startup MedSec, e-mailed Carson Block, who runs the Muddy Waters Capital LLC investment firm, in May. They had a money-making proposal.
DoD delays Cerner EHR modernization
Healthcare IT News ~ Bill Siwicki ~ 01/09/2016
The U.S. Department of Defense said it is pushing back its giant $4.3 billion EHR modernization project with Cerner at least a few months.
