Full adoption of technology and a sustainable transformation of the NHS will require closer coordination, consistency and an improved contractual incentive structure, participants at a BT-sponsored roundtable heard last week. The event, which was held…
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The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council’s Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan is intended to serve as an industry call to action as well as guide C-suite execs, health IT leaders and government…
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What You Should Know:
– Despite the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, a new survey reveals that very few health systems have formal policies in place to govern its use, particularly for…
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Attendees at HIMSS24 will be looking at the emergence of artificial intelligence in healthcare from every angle. Ram Rimal, manager of data science, AI and research for UNC Healthcare and Mike Plesh, executive director…
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Where Are Healthcare Organizations in Their Zero-Trust Journeys?While healthcare organizations are following the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s SP 800-207 and the Zero Trust Maturity Model from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…
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What Is IT Asset Disposition?Consider the tens of millions of medical devices and the exhaustive number of computers, tablets and servers that hospitals rely on. Eventually, these tools either break down or become irrelevant…
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What You Should Know:
– WellSky, a health and community care technology company, and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership to leverage cutting-edge cloud technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) to transform healthcare delivery across…
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ECRI, the patient safety organization, has published its annual list of the 10 health technology hazards it’s watching in 2024.WHY IT MATTERSAs part of its safety-focused mission, the nonprofit ECRI conducts independent evaluations of…
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This month, the World Health Organization released new guidelines on the ethics and governance of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare. Reactions from the leaders of healthcare AI companies have been mainly positive.
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NHS England has written to health service leaders reminding them of their requirement to submit nationally mandated returns during the implementation of electronic patient record systems. The letter follows a series of high–profile cases where…
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