Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending July 21: GDPR fine for Dutch EMR snoopers, NHS tries to quell Alexa nerves, interoperability priority, Philips buys in the US, concerns over 999 triage software, PatientPing for ADT notifications, more AMCA breaches, Soom app for medical devices, NHSmail hack attempts
Patient record snooping incident leads to GDPR fine
Information Security Media Group ~ Marianne Kolbasuk McGee ~ 18/07/2019
Authorities in the Netherlands recently levied a €460,000 fine under the General Data Protection Regulation against a hospital in the Hague in connection with a data breach involving "dozens" of staffers who snooped on the electronic medical records of a celebrity.
