Author: WTN News

The Bethesda-based cloud services company Virtustream is set to be acquired by IT giant EMC in a deal worth $1.2 billion, the companies said Tuesday. The all-cash deal is expected to close during the next few months and marks one of the largest acquisitions in the...

'It is critical that what the nurse sees at any point is up to date' Increasingly hospitals are recognizing the value of interoperability between electronic health records and automated dispensing cabinets, or ADCs. In addition to eliminating redundancies during the medication ordering process, linking them helps...

New technology allows irises to be scanned from 40 feet away. Is this a wonder weapon against crime and terrorism or a way for governments to invade our privacy and track our movements? Imagine if you could be identified with certainty from 40 feet away by...

Designers begin by understanding how people work in the real world, and then create the best IT system that's technically feasible. The one given across all sectors of healthcare today is that change is coming, and not the gradual kind. This is multi-billion-dollar, build-up while tearing...

What is your favorite food? What was your first teacher’s name? What’s the name of your first pet? Do those questions sound familiar to you? If they do, it’s probably because you either have really boring and repetitive conversations or you’ve answered them as security...

'I have never found an insurance company that required a sophisticated attacking incident' It took a health insurance company almost a year to notify some 1.1 million of its members that their personal data had been swiped by hackers. What's more, the cyberattack wasn't even detected...