In the GCC, Saudi Arabia stands out as one of the leading territories spearheading the transformation of the healthcare landscape in the region. The country’s ambitious Vision 2030 goals encompass a range of objectives,…
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WA gov’t funds gen AI in healthcare projectsNearly a million Australian dollars ($590,000) have been awarded by the government of Western Australia to support projects exploring the use of generative AI in healthcare.
A total of 19…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights has released two new patient privacy resources that healthcare organizations can use to educate patients about reducing their risks of a breach of…
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On July 11, 2023, the Mountain Region of 160-hospital health system CommonSpirit Health opened its newest hospital, St. Francis Interquest, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.St. Francis Interquest, a 72-bed orthopedic and spine hospital, is the…
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The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center, or HC3, warned this week about a new ransomware that has a shared encryption feature designed to entice ransomware with the promise of streamlined data recovery. Meanwhile, the…
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The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence means computer systems are now capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making and translation between languages.But what do…
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Clinician-scientists from Japan and Singapore have set out to test the viability of robotic telesurgery as a treatment option.Last week, a surgical team from the National University Hospital (NUH), the flagship hospital of the…
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Harman announced this week that it has developed a private large language model trained on a variety of healthcare data sets.WHY IT MATTERSThe Samsung Electronics subsidiary’s advanced deployment techniques using quantization to reduce model…
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The combined impact of respiratory illness such as COPD, asthma, chronic cough and pneumonia on individuals and health systems is staggering. COPD alone affects more than 15 million people and costs the healthcare system…
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Regenstrief Institute, developer of the LOINC standard, and SNOMED International this week announced their new effort toward enabling wider healthcare data exchange: The LOINC Ontology.WHY IT MATTERSLOINC is used in nearly 200 countries worldwide…
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