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Why Law Firms Hate – And Leave – Their Managed Service Providers
Happy clients don’t leave. And if they are unhappy, we don’t want to compel them to stay.
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Cyberinsurance Bedevils Law Firms
While most lawyers now recognize the need for a cyberinsurance policy, they frequently find themselves balancing the risk of a breach against the cost of the policy.
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The recent announcements on Palantir’s Maven Smart System and other strategic tools are just the start, CDAO Radha Plumb told Breaking Defense, with announcements on tactical and business systems coming by fall.
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Law Firms Gear Up To Battle Deepfakes
Ed. note: This is the latest in the article series, Cybersecurity: Tips From the Trenches, by our friends at Sensei Enterprises, a boutique provider of IT, cybersecurity, and digital forensics services. The Rise of Deepfakes While lawyers have certainly been aware of deepfakes for years, everyone was fighting malware infections. As we constantly remind lawyers, the cybersecurity world […]
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Securing The Bounty: Bug Bounties Take Center Stage In Uber CISO’s Criminal Appeal
Bug bounty programs have been prized as a cybersecurity tool by tech giants and small startups for years, but effective bug bounty programs must have ground rules.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
ONC Chief: New AI Transparency Rule Should Drive Higher Quality Tools & More AI Adoption
Micky Tripathi, head of The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), thinks his office’s recent rule on AI transparency will spur greater adoption of AI tools in healthcare, as well as potentially drive higher quality AI-based products.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
5 Things To Know About the Sorry State Of Healthcare Cybersecurity
During a fireside chat at MedCity News’ INVEST conference, Nitin Natarajan — deputy director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — shared some key ideas that people need to understand about the current state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry. For instance, he reminded us that things won’t get better overnight, and that cybersecurity requires an all-hands-on deck approach.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Innovation Doesn’t Always Have To Involve The Latest Tech, MD Anderson Exec Says
While adopting new technology is obviously a big part of healthcare innovation teams’ work, there are plenty of worthwhile initiatives that don’t involve advanced technologies, pointed out Dan Shoenthal, chief innovation officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
SmarterDx Rakes In $50M For Its AI That Helps Hospitals Capture More Revenue
SmarterDx — an AI startup that provides clinical review and quality audits for medical claims — closed a $50 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to date to $71 million.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
How Can Healthcare Ensure Responsible AI Use?
At a recent conference, executives from across the industry shared their thoughts on how the healthcare sector can ensure its use of AI is ethical and responsible. They highlighted the need for collaboration, trust building, and pragmatic thinking.
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Frankensystem Or Optimized Solution? We Want To Benchmark Your BI
Business intelligence at law firms is important — and all over the map. Tell us about yours and get a chance at a $250 gift card.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
4 Lessons We Learned From The Change Healthcare Cyberattack
Healthcare industry leaders think there is much to learn from the Change Healthcare cyberattack, and they hope the sector can apply these lessons to prevent a hack like this from ever happening again. Overall, the chaotic aftermath of the attack underscores the dire need for a more unified approach to cybersecurity within the healthcare sector.
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Cybersecurity Statistics In 2024: Is Your Law Firm Protected?
Sixty-nine percent of organizations were infected by ransomware. It remains a plague.
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US Joins Austria, Bahrain, Canada, & Portugal To Co-Lead Global Push For Safer Military AI
Two US officials exclusively tell Breaking Defense the details of new international ‘working groups’ that are the next step in Washington’s campaign for ethical and safety standards for military AI and automation – without prohibiting their use entirely.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
There’s A Crucial Part Of Tech Pilot Design That Many Health Systems Forget, Geisinger Exec Says
During an interview this month at HIMSS24, David Vawdrey — Geisinger’s chief data and informatics officer — said health systems should spend more time designing their plan for evaluating success when it comes to tech pilots.
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‘Useful’ Or ‘Dangerous’: Pentagon ‘Maturity Model’ For Generative AI Coming In June
With AI hype outrunning reality, DoD AI chief Craig Martell told lawmakers his office is ‘building what we’re calling a maturity model’ to assess what generative AI really can and cannot do.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Intermountain Health CISO: The Industry Needs Better Transparency After Cyberattacks
After a healthcare cyberattack, the impacted organization often doesn’t want to divulge a lot of information, Intermountain Health CISO Erik Decker said last week at HIMSS. However, he thinks healthcare organizations should be more transparent with their peers after an attack because ‘no one system operates independent of everybody else.’
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Mount Sinai CEO: Hospitals Will Start Seeing ROI From Their AI Investments In A Couple Years
Health systems aren’t seeing a ton of ROI when it comes to their AI investments quite yet, as use of the technology is still in an iterative stage. However, Mount Sinai CEO Brendan Carr thinks that is likely to change in the next couple years.