MediSecure hack exposed data of 13 million AustraliansApproximately 12.9 million Australians had their health information stolen in the recent MediSecure hack.
This, according to the embattled e-prescription provider, who recently went into administration following a…
ABDM, tele-mental health budgets reducedEarly this week, India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the official Union Budget for 2024-2025.
For healthcare, the government set aside Rs 90,958.63 crore ($10.8 billion), rising by nearly 13% from…
San Francisco-based Commure, which develops a suite of software programs designed to help healthcare organizations boost efficiencies, announced recently that it will acquire Augmedix, which makes ambient AI-enabled tools for clinical workflow and documentation.The…
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Artificial intelligence is fast proliferating across healthcare, with various applications large and small finding their way into workflows industry-wide.Whether it’s helping clinicians during telemedicine visits, transcribing entire conversations between doctors and patients, writing notes…
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This week has seen new vendor announcements for an array of artificial intelligence use cases: enhanced population health management on the county level and a New York University Langone Health spinoff focused on leveraging physics…
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is unveiling a new department-wide restructuring that it says will “streamline and bolster” strategy and policymaking for information technology, cybersecurity, data and artificial intelligence.The aim is…
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A series of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities are affecting Philips’ Vue Picture Archiving and Communication Systems Versions prior to 12.2.8.410, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said this past week. They could allow cybercriminals to…
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Three-dimensional reconstruction and modeling technology is not new in hospitals. In fact, many organizations have dedicated radiology technologists that perform 3D reconstructions from cross-sectional images.THE PROBLEM
The results of their work are typically saved back…
By now, everyone in healthcare is well aware of the problem of clinician burnout – and its consequences, which aggravate the staffing shortage crisis.Health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems already have begun…
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Healthcare leaders have begun to digest the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s recently proposed HTI-2 interoperability rule, and many have offered their reaction to its various components.While most see the proposed…
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