Part two in a series by Katherine Gronberg, vice president of government affairs at ForeScout. For part one, “Hospitals and the IoT: When Your MRI Machine is a Welcome Mat (For Hackers),” click here.

Microsoft and the healthcare solutions provider Indegene joined forces to create new commercial cloud applications for the life sciences sector.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office's Center for Science, Technology and Engineering released its technology assessment of the Internet of Things.

Change Healthcare on May 22 joined Hyperledger — an open-source, cross-industry effort to advance blockchain — as a premier member.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai discussed a new artificial intelligence chip during his May 17 keynote speech at Google I/O, the company's developer conference in Mountain View, Calif., Wired reports.

A recent rise in ransomware attacks has posed a problem for organizations that haven't invested in cyber coverage, according to Reuters.

A 16-bed hospital in Fruita, Colo., went on precautionary lockdown after a "general threat" was made against the hospital and posted on Facebook, according to a local news report from The Daily Sentinel.

MetroStar Systems, a public sector IT services provider, hired Robert Wren as director of IT transformation and enterprise architecture.

A new bus service, called the Black Mamba Bus Co., will launch on June 12, giving Epic Systems Corp. workers living in downtown Madison, Wis., a new way to get to the Epic campus, according to a Wisconsin State Journal…

When most people envision the health tech of tomorrow, they imagine shiny new handheld devices and health trackers sported by young, healthy adults in their prime.