Digital health tools can be useful post-surgery, but more high-quality...
A systematic review published this past week in npj Digital Medicineexamined the use of mobile and wearable digital health interventions to monitor patients after surgery. For the paper, University of...
View ArticleSiriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital applies contactless, face recognition-based...
Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital, a hospital unit run by the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital of Mahidol University, has upgraded its registration process by installing a contactless, face...
View ArticleEpic-generated sepsis alerts increased during COVID-19, study shows
A research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open this week examined the number of alerts generated by the Epic Sepsis Model at 24 hospitals before and during...
View ArticleCISA, FBI warn critical infrastructure: Stay vigilant over the holidays
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a reminder this week to critical infrastructure partners that bad actors are unlikely to take a...
View ArticleHow AI bias happens – and how to eliminate it
Artificial intelligence holds great promise for healthcare, and it is already being put to use by many forward-looking hospitals and health systems.One challenge for healthcare CIOs and clinical users...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Los Angeles hit with ransomware attack
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles began sending notification letters this week to patients whose information may have been affected by a cyber incident in October.According to the letter, which was posted...
View ArticlePandemic stress, cyberattacks are compounding degradation of care delivery
This past September, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency published a report designed to assess the health of the nation's hospitals and health...
View ArticleKaspersky survey raises concerns about patient trust in telehealth
A survey released this past week by the cybersecurity company Kaspersky found that globally, the majority of providers have already implemented telehealth capabilities, with many saying their patients...
View ArticlePlaying with FHIR? Don't get burned, white-hat hacker cautions
This October, cybersecurity expert Alissa Knight released a white paper in partnership with API threat protection vendor Aproov exploring how healthcare's so-called last mile remains vulnerable to...
View ArticleHow C-suite leaders can work together to maximize cybersecurity
In the past, Allegheny Health Network Chief Operations Officer Duke Rupert says he didn't necessarily think of cybersecurity as his purview.But amidst the pressures exacted by COVID-19 – including a...
View ArticleEmployee burnout severely risking cybersecurity, report finds
A new report from the password manager vendor 1Password found that employee burnout presents a "severe, pervasive and multifaceted security risk." Workers in virtually every industry are reporting...
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Duke, Mayo Clinic, others launch innovative AI collaboration
At the virtual HIMSS Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare event on Tuesday afternoon, artificial intelligence researchers and technology leaders from Duke, Mayo Clinic and UC Berkeley and others...
View ArticleDiagnostic AI may be vulnerable to cyberattacks, UPMC study shows
A study published in Nature Communications this week aimed to investigate whether adversarial images could fool an artificial intelligence model developed to diagnose breast cancer.University of...
View ArticleDoxy.me leak exposes provider data to third parties
A CyberScoop report published on Friday found that the telehealth provider Doxy.me had allowed third parties to access data about providers via its virtual waiting room. According to reporter Tonya...
View ArticleFeds point to learning health system as key to patient safety
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in conjunction with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, released a report to Congress this month exploring effective strategies for...
View Article'Unusual activity' triggers 5-day network outage for Missouri hospital
Capital Region Medical Center, an affiliate of University of Missouri Health Care, has spent nearly a week battling a system-wide network outage affecting its phone and computer systems. Although...
View ArticleRoundup: Multiple healthcare orgs report cyber attacks
[Ed. note: This piece has been updated to include the latest post from CompuGroup Medical.]CompuGroup Medical, a medical software vendor, reported that it had been hit with a ransomware attack leading...
View ArticleIT execs talk priorities and predictions for 2022
The beginning of a new year is usually a time for optimism. But for a U.S. health system stretched thin by wave after wave of COVID-19 variants, that hope may be hard to come by.The healthcare...
View ArticleHackers breach info of 1.3M in Florida health system incident
Florida-based Broward Health announced this weekend that a data incident in October had affected the personal information of more than 1.3 million patients and staff members. According to a notice...
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