The healthcare sector faces cyber threats as cybercriminals target hospitals, leaking patient data and auctioning DNA records. The Karakurt group steals sensitive information from hospitals, while the Cl0p ransomware gang exposes healthcare details. Medicare…
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Hospitals and health systems are tracking vulnerabilities in their network infrastructure, that of their vendors and widely used fourth-party tools. Meanwhile, bad actors are finding ways to target large organizations, regional hospitals and patients…
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by Jasmine Pennic 07/31/2023 Leave a Comment
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Juno Diagnostics, a healthcare technology company developing the next generation cell-free DNA-based noninvasive prenatal test solutions announced it has ceased commercial operations, effective immediately. The company…
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by Fred Pennic 07/31/2023 Leave a Comment
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New Day Diagnostics LLC announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of Epigenomics AG, a molecular diagnostics company focused on blood…
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By Mark Melchionna
July 11, 2023 – Developed by scientists at Harvard Medical School, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool can help guide surgical practices by decoding the DNA of a brain tumor during surgery, providing useful…
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By Shania Kennedy
July 10, 2023 – A new study published last week in Nature Biotechnology demonstrated that a deep learning (DL) tool can predict on- and off-target activity of RNA-targeting CRISPR tools, which may spur…
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by Healthcare M&A 06/23/2023 Leave a Comment
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Quest Diagnostics announced that it has completed its $450M acquisition of Haystack Oncology.Haystack Oncology has developed a highly sensitive minimal-residual disease (MRD) testing technology, based…
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By Jill McKeon
June 20, 2023 – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a proposed settlement with 1Health.io, a genetic testing company, over its alleged security and privacy failures. The order requires the company to pay…
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Welcome to a brand new episode of our "Digital Health Interviews" series. Today we have an engaging conversation with Dr. Anna Erat, a leading medical doctor from Hirslanden, Switzerland. As a keen advocate of…
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We’re all familiar with the stories of Blockbuster Video, Radio Shack, and Kodak—business school case studies on failing to anticipate future market needs—but are we effectively preparing our own companies to avoid the same…
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