3% is not enough: According to this piece from Modern Healthcare, the security threat revealed by the Anthem breach might not be enough to increase spending on cybersecurity, for healthcare or for anyone else. “Experts doubt Anthem breach will boost security spending”

Sugar high: Dr. Abigail James, a neuroscientist and educator who’s known globally for her thinking on the science of learning, points out the results of a Yale study on energy drinks and school children, and shares some tips for parents on weaning their kids off the sugar/caffeine rush. “Sugar high: It’s REAL”

Marble doesn’t matter? I (Casey) have an admitted admiration for hospitalist MDs, based on my work producing a podcast series for The Hospitalist magazine. This post, from the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Hospital Leader blog, is Dr. Bradley Flansbaum’s take on the results of a Johns Hopkins study on hospital fittings – think Ritz Carlton vs. Quality Inn – and their impact on patient satisfaction scoring on physicians. “If your hospital was the Ritz Carlton, how high would your patients rate you?”

Irish science breakthrough: It’s early days in this study, but preliminary reports show some hope for Alzheimer’s and MS patients from a drug under study in Dublin. It’s called MCC950. We’ll be watching this one. From the Irish Times: “Ireland leads a drug breakthrough in fight against MS, Alzheimer’s”

Data geek hacky sack: Our longtime friend Brian Ahier is a health IT geek extraordinaire. Here’s a profile of his upcoming booth-babe appearance at HIMSS15, which includes his belief that health IT is an evergreen bipartisan issue. And a call to develop a wearable that counts hacky sack kicks. From Healthcare IT News: “Brian Ahier: HIE-vangelist, hacky sack extraordinaire”

Healthcare hackathon for CEOs: This showed up in my Facebook news feed today, and I was fascinated. In Denver, a dedicated man named Tom Higley – a real Renaissance man: attorney, musician, tech entrepreneur – has a very interesting event underway this week, where 10 CEOs will listen to 10 “wicked” healthcare ideas, and then incubate a solution to one of them in 10 days. From the Denver Post: “Sold-out production gives 10 CEOs 10 days to build viable health startup“