emerging health news from FierceHealthIT

As the top story below reminds us, it doesn't take a sophisticated attack to expose critical patient data. In fact, in this case, something as simple as an unsecured Web server was to blame.

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If you're an emerging health IT vendor, you'll like this news. During 2006, angel investors got really excited about health IT, plowing a good chunk of the $25.6 billion they spent into medical device and healthcare services startups, according to a new report released by the Center for Venture Research. In fact, medical device and healthcare services startups captured 21 percent of total investments last year, the group reported. What types of investments are the hottest? …

Emerging health information group CalRHIO, which is in the process of building a $300M statewide information network, is moving on to the next stage in its development process and selecting two vendors which will be tasked with doing the build-out. CalRHIO has picked Medicity and Perot Systems after a competitive bidding process which lasted several months. Medicity and Perot Systems are playing a unique role, for a vendor, in that they'll also be asked to help CalRHIO get private seed …

A new RHIO is being kicked off to serve the 1.4 million residents of the Bronx. The Bronx Regional Health Information Organization, which just got a $4.1 million grant from New York state, will include 80 percent of the borough's providers, 50 percent of the borough's physicians and two-thirds of all inpatient care, the group said. The grant is part of a $52.9 million package of 26 state grants handed out under the state's Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law.

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