Cybersecurity researchers recently revealed a new kind of healthcare hacker. Orangeworm, as the group is called, has been preying on glaring vulnerabilities for years. Can it be stopped?

To find out, Data Book talks to John DiMaggio, a senior threat intelligence analyst for Symantec and one of the people who unearthed Orangeworm. CynergisTek's John Nye delivers the Insight.

The country's great disrupters have a new target: healthcare. Amazon, Google, Apple, and even Uber—they're all trying to improve American medicine. But can tech change such a complex system? To find out, Data Book explores Amazon's history and interviews Kate McCarthy, a senior health-tech analyst for Forrester.

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Not every doctor and health system embraces big data, artificial intelligence, and digital health. Join our guests Kevin Campbell, MD, and Janae Sharp to find out what's at stake. Plus, what healthcare can learn from journalism's botched tech evolution.

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CRISPR, TALEN, and gene editing sound like the stuff of the future, but they are already changing medicine. What about zinc finger nucleases? That's what Sangamo Therapeutics uses to perform gene editing, and the tech recently earned the company a $3 billion deal. Today on Data Book, the origins of CRISPR and the Sangamo story.

Big data and analytics have become a big part of baseball. So, what can healthcare take from America's national pastime? A lot. Just ask Neil Kudler, MD, of Vertitech IT. But first, Data Book explores the sport's most notorious high-tech scandal.

When 10 million patient records were posted for sale on the dark web, a hacker collective called the Dark Overlord took credit for the data dump. The mysterious group's taunting attacks underscored a much larger problem for healthcare: cybersecurity.

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