Rising Cybersecurity Threats in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations face mounting cybersecurity challenges daily. The sector has become a prime target for cyberattacks, with hospital systems reporting record numbers of data breaches and ransomware incidents in recent…
Bipartisan Legislation Tackles Imaging Oversight
A new bipartisan bill seeks to transform Medicare’s approach to advanced diagnostic imaging by reviving and improving the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) program that was indefinitely paused by CMS in…
Helen Thomas, chief executive at Digital Health and Care Wales (Image provided by DHCW)
Serious concern has been raised by the Welsh government about the ability of Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) to…
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A consortium led by South Korea’s top universities, Yonsei University and Seoul National University, will embark on a national project promoting the early detection of autism spectrum disorder in the country.Backed by the National…
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Suppliers have quizzed NHS England about the relationship between the proposed single patient record (SPR) and the federated data platform (FDP).
Plans for an SPR which would connect NHS and social care data were announced…
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Shares of Scotland-based Craneware jump on reports that Bain Capital is considering acquiring the company.
Bain Capital confirmed that Bain Capital Funds is assessing a possible offer, but it has not involved Craneware’s board.
The…
Artificial Intelligence can mitigate the global shortage of medical diagnostic personnel but requires large-scale annotated datasets to train clinical algorithms. Natural Language Processing (NLP), including Large Language Models (LLMs), shows great potential for annotating…
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Data sharing technology company Datavant announced it will acquire Aetion, a company focused on real-world evidence in healthcare.Aetion will join Datavant to offer an end-to-end real-world evidence (RWE) platform, allowing healthcare and life sciences…
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On-demand, in-home care company Sprinter Health secured $55 million in a Series B financing round led by General Catalyst.Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health and other existing investors, including the Regents of the University…
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For all the strides made in recent years breaking down the many barriers to data interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem, challenges still remain. One of the biggest is sharing patient information between and among…
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