To help rural healthcare systems better protect themselves from malicious actors in an age of AI-powered threats, Microsoft, the White House, the American Hospital Association and the National Rural Health Association are teaming up…
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Healthcare organizations have no shortage of data about their patients, not only from electronic health records (EHRs) but also from remote patient monitoring. So far, however, it has been difficult for IT and clinical…
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The Source of Information Asymmetry in Healthcare
The U.S. does not have a monolithic healthcare system, but rather a fragmented patchwork of over 900,000 organizations. Healthcare delivery in the U.S. is generally so complex that…
What does it mean to transform healthcare? For some, it means centering patients in conversations about their care and interactions with the healthcare system. For others, it means using tools such as artificial intelligence…
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Map Data Dependencies and Where Data Will Reside
The next critical step is to map dependencies before beginning the actual modernization.
“Even a minor change to the functionality of a core system can have major downstream…
Assessments Can Accelerate the Application Modernization Process
Peters says that a typical manual assessment of a healthcare organization’s codebase can take roughly 12 to 18 months to complete. However, with SAMA, IT leaders can get an…
Update applications with modern technologies previously unavailable to legacy systems. These may include containers for deploying a single application in multiple environments, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for mining large data stores, and…
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How Are Threat Actors Using Generative AI?“We were able to trick a generative AI model to develop highly convincing phishing emails in just five minutes,” Carruthers notes in an IBM SecurityIntelligence blog post. “It…
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That’s very convenient for the vendor, but it creates a security nightmare for IT managers. These types of connections need to be blocked by on-premises firewalls except when specific vendor intervention is requested.
Healthcare IT…
At the end of March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discussed its plans to create a centralized resource to help improve cybersecurity coordination for healthcare.
These plans come amid the fallout from…
