• Walmart Health opens second facility in Calhoun, Georgia
  January 13, 2020
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Walmart Health opens second facility in Calhoun, Georgia

As reported in our "January 2020 Blog - Walmart Health enters the healthcare marketplace", Walmart cut the ribbon on it's newest full-care clinic in Calhoun, Georgia with the asssitance of actor, Mark Wahlberg. The new Calhoun facility will offer primary and urgent care, labs, x-rays and dignostics, counseling, dental, optical, and hearing services as well as community health classes through a partenrship with Tivity Health. These services are in addition to the full-service pharmacy already in the store. This new urgent care center will offer upfront pricing for their services similiar to the previously-opened Walmart Health in Dallas, Georgia. The upfront pricing model will aloow patients to know exactly what the cost of services will be prior to making their appointment. In a time where many rural healthcare facilities are on the brink of bankruptcies, Walmart is using their existing facilities to ensure that the people of these communities have a easy access to healthcare.
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• Agfa-Gevaert Group and Dedalus sign share purchase agreement for sale of part of Agfa HealthCare’s IT business
  February 4, 2020
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Agfa-Gevaert Group and Dedalus sign share purchase agreement for sale of part of Agfa HealthCare’s IT business
Press Release / Mortsel, Belgium / 29th January 2020


As announced on December 2, 2019, the Board of Directors of the Agfa-Gevaert Group decided to enter into exclusive negotiations with Dedalus Holding S.p.A. to sell a part of Agfa HealthCare’s IT business (the “Business”). Today, both parties announce that they have signed the share purchase agreement, under which Dedalus S.p.A. would acquire 100% of the Business at an enterprise value of 975 million Euro, subject to regular working capital and net debt adjustments.

The transaction is subject to customary employees’ consultations, regulatory approvals and closing conditions. Both parties aim to close the transaction in the course of Q2 2020.

The Business consists of the Healthcare Information Solutions and Integrated Care activities, as well as the Imaging IT activities to the extent that these activities are tightly integrated into the Healthcare Information Solutions activities. This is the case mainly in the DACH region, France and Brazil.

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About Agfa

The Agfa-Gevaert Group develops, manufactures and distributes an extensive range of analogue and digital imaging systems and IT solutions, mainly for the printing industry and the healthcare sector, as well as for specific industrial applications.

Agfa’s headquarters and parent company are located in Mortsel, Belgium.

The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 2,247 million euro in 2018.
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• Microsoft CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability Security Announcement (CVE-2020-0601)
  January 23, 2020
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Microsoft CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability Security Announcement (CVE-2020-0601)
January 23, 2020


On January 14th, 2020 Microsoft released patches for a vulnerability that if exploited would allow malicious software to appear as though it was from a trusted, legitimate source. This vulnerability bypasses Windows’ ability to verify cryptographic trust, permitting an attacker to create a false certificate to sign malicious code. The NSA, in their cybersecurity advisory, “assesses the vulnerability to be severe” and the “consequences of not patching the vulnerability are severe and widespread”. This vulnerability could facilitate easier spread of vulnerabilities like ransomware undetected. Microsoft patches ensure the cryptographic certificate is completely validated and currently are the only mitigation.

According to Microsoft, this vulnerability is not being actively exploited, although they assess this vulnerability likely to be exploited in affected operating systems. Patches have been issued for Windows 10, Server 2016, Server 2019. A Security bulletin will be issued shortly to provide guidance to our field support channel mitigate this vulnerability. This announcement will be updated as necessary to advise of further developments. Shimadzu Medical Systems continually monitors for major vulnerabilities such as these. We will continue to monitor this threat and update this announcement with any additional product protection guidance or any known threat or exploit information related to this vulnerability. Additional information from Microsoft and the security community are listed below.

• Microsoft Security Bulletin: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0601
• Tenable: https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2020-0601-nsa-reported-spoofing-vulnerability-in-windows-cryptoapi
• Microsoft MSRC Blog: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/01/14/january-2020-security-updates-cve-2020-0601/
• MITRE CVE: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0601
• NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/14/2002234275/-1/-1/0/CSA-WINDOWS-10-CRYPT-LIB-20190114.PDF
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• Hospitals increasingly abandoning shielding in radiology as movement takes hold across US
  January 15, 2020
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Hospitals increasingly abandoning shielding in radiology as movement takes hold across US
January 15, 2020


An article by Marty Stempniak
One prominent Chicago pediatric hospital is launching an “Abandon the Shield” campaign to begin moving away from using lead protection for patients during imaging exams this spring. Another a few miles away is mulling the same, despite the initial “shock” clinicians felt when presented with the idea.

Across the country, this movement away from shielding is beginning to take hold, Kaiser Health News detailed in a prominent report issued Jan. 15, and also published in the New York Times. At least a dozen U.S. hospitals have already changed their policies on protection during x-rays and many more are starting to have the conversation, one expert told the news outlet.

Doing so, however, has not always proven easy, with most healthcare consumers convinced that shielding is necessary during any imaging test.
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