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Meaningful Use: How Patient Should Patients Be?
I mean no disrespect to the people who crafted the 800-plus pages of the HITECH meaningful use regulations, but I am only half-joking when I offer a slightly abbreviated vision of MU: Read More »
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Medical Devices Hit by Ransomware for the First Time in US Hospitals
Is it possible that North Korea used a stolen National Security Agency hacking tool to infect medical devices at U.S. hospitals? Turns out, in today's topsy-turvy world, it is. When the NSA cyber weapon-powered WannaCry ransomware spread across the world this past weekend, it infected as many as 200,000 Windows systems, including those at 48 hospital trusts in the U.K. and so-far unnamed medical facilities in the U.S. too. It wasn't just administrative PCs that were hacked, though. Medical devices themselves were affected too, Forbes has learned...
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Medical Devices Reportedly Infected in Ransomware Attack
The recent WannaCry ransomware attack that infiltrated more than 150 countries and forced some European healthcare organizations to suspend certain services reportedly infected certain medical devices as well. HITRUST explained in an email update that its investigations found that MedRad (Bayer), Siemens, and other unnamed medical devices were infected. Furthermore, Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) “were identified within the HITRUST Enhanced IOC program well in advance of last Friday’s attacks,” the organization stated...
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Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software
From the outside looking in, it appears that Microsoft has indeed turned the corner. The company recently added two open source platforms to Windows Azure — its new-age web service for building and hosting applications on the net — and it’s actually contributing open source code to these projects — as well as others. These aren’t minor open source projects. Read More »
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Microsoft Aims To Take On iPad In Health Care
When internist Nitin Patel called up Microsoft MSFT +0.15% in May to rave about its Surface Pro tablet, Dennis Schmuland, the company’s head of health strategy for U.S. Health & Life Sciences, was taken aback... Read More »
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Microsoft Allowed the NSA Access to Skype, Skydrive and Outlook
Microsoft colluded with the NSA by handing over access to encrypted messages, files seen by the Guardian reveal. The company helped the agency circumvent encryption and gain access to web chats, email and cloud storage. Read More »
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Microsoft and Apple unleash thermonuclear war on Google & Android
Former Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs didn't like Android and he told his biographer Walter Isaacson that he would "destroy Android" because it was "a stolen product" and said that he was "willing to go thermonuclear war" on the platform... Read More »
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Microsoft And Nokia's Plan To Shake Down Android Device Manufacturers
Microsoft shrewdly opted not to buy Nokia's mobile patents, thereby enabling another massive patent troll to prey on Android. Read More »
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Microsoft and Partners Combine the Cloud, AI, Research and Industry Expertise to Focus on Transforming Health Care
...Healthcare NExT, a new initiative to dramatically transform health care, will deeply integrate greenfield research and health technology product development, as well as establish a new model at Microsoft for strategic health industry partnerships. Through these collaborations between health care partners and Microsoft’s AI and Research organization, our goal is to enable a new wave of innovation and impact using Microsoft’s deep AI expertise and global-scale cloud.This initiative includes investments in resources for our partners to capture new opportunities to apply AI to healthcare, such as the Microsoft AI in Health Partner Alliance, an expanding group of partners focused on advancing health technology. Alliance members will receive unique training and access to Microsoft technologies, engineering expertise and data sets. Read More »
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Microsoft Asks Attorney General To Release Gag Order On NSA Spying
Microsoft is tired of getting pummeled in the press over reports that it hands over emails and Skype conversations to the National Security Agency. [...] Read More »
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Microsoft continues to move towards 'openness'
Microsoft is "spinning out a wholly owned subsidiary to bridge the gap between proprietary Microsoft technologies and non-Microsoft technologies in mixed IT environments by engaging with open source and standards communities." Read More »
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Microsoft Contributes Open-Source Code to Samba
Freak snowstorm reported in hell. Tea party agrees Obama is the best candidate for 2012 presidential election. Microsoft submits open-source code under the GPLv3 to Samba. Those are all pretty unlikely, but Microsoft really did submit code to the Samba file server open-source project. Read More »
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Microsoft Embraces Elephant of Open Source
It took more than three years, but Microsoft has finally learned to stop worrying and love Hadoop. Read More »
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Microsoft Extends Open-Sourcing Spree With Project Orleans
Hot on the heels of open-sourcing .Net Core, Microsoft does the same with its Orleans cloud computing framework...
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Microsoft Eyes Hybrid Open Source Approach to Public Sector Work
Microsoft is increasingly looking at a hybrid approach that takes advantage of both proprietary enterprise IT and open source technologies for public sector projects to better meet the needs of customers in a multi-platform technology environment. Michael Wignall, national technology officer at Microsoft UK, said that despite being a company long associated with proprietary software and technology changing user needs had facilitated a switch towards providing solutions that offer at least some open source components in the area of Android devices and other platforms...
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