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This week's top stories include ex-CEO Cyrus Massoumi claiming his former colleagues coordinated a plan to replace him, a study finding telehealth to be the biggest threat to healthcare cybersecurity, and a NorthShore breach affecting 348,00 people.

Managing the whole population during the COVID-19 crisis is posing challenges, so we should share our learning, says Päivi Sillanaukee, ambassador for Health and Wellbeing of Finland and director-general of the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.

The Virolens system has undergone a successful trial at London’s Heathrow Airport. 

Also, mayor of London expresses frustration over the lack of information on contact tracing app.

Two of Samsung’s existing ultrasound technologies, BiometryAssist and LaborAssist, now feature Intel’s software to provide almost instantaneous measurements.

By adding clinical decision support and the ability to see patient activity outside the four walls of the hospital, CalvertHealth in Maryland saw, among other things, a 94% reduction in Dilaudid use.

Provider buy-in is more important than ever, digital therapeutics stakeholders say.

Panelists at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Conference discuss how digital health can help women learn more about their sexual health and wellbeing. 

Although progress has been made in terms of empowering patients at an organizational level, patient speaker and activist Theo Sergiou says there is room for improvement at an institutional level.

Innovative services have been implemented on a patient population level, based on data to identify potential issues to prevent disease, says Clalit Health Services Chief Innovation Officer Ran Balicer.