India is stepping up its cybersecurity efforts. Cyber is the ‘Fifth Dimension’ of warfare, says NATO. A Senate bill would crack down on cyber crime havens. Raytheon won a deal to support the GBS program. GD nailed an M1 Abrams Tank support deal. The FDA is increasing transparency. A new smartphone app helps health IT [...]
On Tuesday, the FCC released its National Broadband Plan. It notes that “the United States is not taking full advantage of the opportunities that health IT provides. It lags other developed countries in health IT adoption among primary health care providers,” and provides eleven recommendations to close the gap between the U.S. and leaders in [...]
In the wake of almost 260 reports of “malfunctions with the potential for patient harm,” healthITBuzz reports that the FDA is considering regulation of healthcare IT, specifically Electronic Health Records. In his prepared remarks for Congress today, Jeffrey Shuren, director of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, an operating room electronic health record management [...]
