What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?
With RAG, an LLM is better positioned to optimize its output before generating a response, says Tehsin Syed, Amazon Web Services’ general manager of health AI. This is valuable when a…
Why Healthcare Systems Are Targeted
Greg Young, vice president of cybersecurity at Trend Micro, says an organization’s biggest vulnerability is simply being in the healthcare industry.
“The amount of key data within these organizations is a…
1. Assess Your Current Environment
This may seem straightforward, but how well do you really know everything that’s part of your infrastructure? How much technical debt do you have? Who are all of the partners…
A large federal health agency wanted to modernize its complex public health database system to a new cloud-based database, but the IT team faced an uphill battle. Stakeholders on the project told them, “You’re…
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New Research to Improve Patient Care
Through Cleveland Clinic’s Discovery Accelerator partnership, there are 52 research projects underway using these high-performance computing technologies. Together with IBM, the health system has published peer-reviewed research papers, including its first study,…
Here is some of the notable M&A activity that occurred among healthcare providers in Q4 2024:
UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys
In November, the Department of Justice released a statement announcing its intent to block UnitedHealth Group’s…
HEALTHTECH: What trends are you anticipating in 2025?CODE: The industry is frequently talking about analytics, which people are going to be spending more money on. So, you’ll see more of that. Additionally, cybersecurity is always…
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Sign up for our newsletter to get weekly updates on the latest in healthcare IT insights.2. Maturing Data Management as a Foundational Measure
But before organizations can even begin to envision a chatbot or other…
The Cloud Can Improve Availability
Cloud vendors have an economy of scale, so they can provide availability more efficiently and cost-effectively. “Availability can definitely improve with the cloud,” Turk says.
Even so, healthcare organizations should identify…
Technical Debt Limits Visibility into Healthcare’s Vulnerabilities
One issue is that legacy systems, and the IT teams that manage them, tend to be siloed. That makes incident response difficult. With limited visibility across the enterprise,…
