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3. Legal news: NuVasive goes after ex-sales reps now with Lanx
NuVasive’s ongoing legal battle with Lanx Inc. over the defection of a slew of its former sales reps continues with a lawsuit filed against 3 former reps in New York.
2. Hacking Healthcare: “There’s really no excuse for designing crappy, insecure systems”
Cybersecurity experts decry the lax security in medical devices and warn that the information stored in the machines – not to mention their ability to affect someone’s health – may draw a dangerous crowd.
1. Taming the tsunami of clinical data: Can speech recognition change the way medicine is practiced?
It can if Dr. Nick van Terheyden, chief medical information officer for Nuance Communications, has anything to say about it.