Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending September 20: Patient dies after ransomware attack, GOSH gets HIMSS Stage 7, Singapore's Apple Watch health deal, patient want their health data, US telehealth expansion, tech for Scottish care homes, Wales data leak, FDA approval for Fitbit's ECG app, Kaiser Permanente's virtual first insurance plan, vulnerabilities in patient monitoring software
German hospital hacked, patient taken to another city dies
AP ~ Staff writer ~ 17/09/2020
German authorities said Thursday that an apparently misdirected ransomware attack caused the failure of IT systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf, and a woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment.
