Marcus Perez, president of Altera Digital Health, is focusing on patient-oriented solutions at the HIMSS25 conference. Notably, he underlines the importance for healthcare IT vendors to solve problems rather than just meet regulatory requirements or develop new features. Perez also advises against getting taken in by “shiny object syndrome”, but to look into alternatives that are more personalized and drive healthy competition in the health IT space. He emphasises industry transformation through steady, sustainable achievements.
Blue Shield Exposed Health Data of 4.7 Million via Google Ads
Blue Shield of California inadvertently shared protected health information of up to 4.7 million members with Google Ads due to a configuration error over almost
