In 2013, the actress Angelina Jolie published an opinion column in the New York Times that described her decision to undergo a preventive mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA gene, a mutation that can lead to breast cancer.

Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, La., is implementing Health Catalyst's data analytics solution.

Apple on Aug. 29 confirmed it acquired Akonia Holographics, a Longmont, Colo.-based startup that builds lenses for augmented-reality glasses, Reuters reports.

The Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis entered into a joint research agreement with Fujifilm, a Japanese photography and imaging company, Aug. 28.

Among the investors backing Unity Biotechnology, a startup that aims to develop drugs to extend the human lifespan, is Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, CNBC reports.

WellCare Health Plans, a contractor that administers Missouri Medicaid plans, accidentally exposed the personal health information of 19,570 children in a mailing error, The Kansas City Star reports.

Financial services may be the leading industry adopting blockchain, but executives also see promise in industries like healthcare, according to a PwC survey.

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Todd Plesco, chief information security officer at Irvine, Calif.-based PrescribeWellness, discusses the need for ethics in data protection and how hospitals should handle threats to cybersecurity.

Shortly after Genevieve Morris, chief health information officer of the Veterans Affairs Department's Office for EHR Modernization, resigned from her post Aug. 24, Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., sent a letter to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie expressing "great concern about the…