A Week in Review, June 6

IBM Watson Beaten In Medical Diagnostics Race

[InformationWeek Healthcare] Sherlock Holmes would be proud of IBM's Watson computer. No longer the bumbling sidekick portrayed by Arthur Conan Doyle, the supercomputer has managed to master natural language skills, defeat Jeopardy contestants, and wow medical school professors with its potential to diagnose esoteric diseases. I suspect it would even make the late IBM President Thomas J. Watson, for whom the computer is named, proud. Read full story here.

Health Care Cloud Offers Some Risk, Endless Possibilities

[SearchHealthIT.com] Health care information technology, in many ways, trails other vertical markets. Contract attorney Diana McKenzie of HunterMaclean in Savannah, Ga. put it this way: When she first started practicing health IT law more than two decades ago, she found health care about eight years behind finance. Read full story here.

Verizon Enhances Security Programs For Healthcare Organizations

[InformationWeek Healthcare] Verizon has added new capabilities to two of its security programs, capabilities that should help health delivery organization strengthen security across their health systems and assess the security practices of partners they do business with. Read full story here.