Health Care / Medicine
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Cybersecurity Threats Continue To Rise For Healthcare Organizations, Research Shows
The vast majority of healthcare organizations have spotted a cyberattack and suffered financial consequences as a result in the past 12 months, according to new research. A separate report also found that overall cyberattacks on healthcare organizations have risen by 32% year-over-year.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Healthcare’s Cybersecurity Crisis: Why Today’s Defenses Are Failing Against Evolving Threats
Healthcare providers and vendors are learning the hard way that hackers are relentless and resourceful, constantly adjusting tactics and tools and using new technology, including AI, to launch more sophisticated attacks.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Technology often plays a critical role in strategies to combat rising costs while maintaining quality care. Here are four trends expected to accelerate in 2025.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Innovaccer closed a $275 million Series F funding round, bringing its fundraising total to date to $675 million. The company has plans to go public ‘at some point,’ but it isn’t in any hurry, said CEO Abhinav Shashank.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Healthcare Providers Lose Nearly $2M Per Day Due To Cyberattack-Induced Downtime
U.S. healthcare organizations lose $1.9 million on average during each day of downtime following a ransomware attack, according to new research from Comparitech. Rebecca Moody, Comparitech’s head of data research, predicted that the rate of ransomware attacks in the healthcare sector will accelerate even more in 2025.
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Government, Health Care / Medicine
Why One Startup CEO Is Excited About The White House’s New AI Czar Role
President-elect Donald Trump recently appointed former Paypal executive David Sacks as the White House’s first-ever czar for AI and cryptocurrency. Ryan Tarzy — CEO of Avandra Imaging, a federated network for de-identified imaging data — thinks this appointment could help accelerate the pace of innovation in the healthcare industry.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Why AI Governance Is The Number 1 Issue On This Health System Exec’s Mind
Jason Hill, Ochsner Health’s innovation officer, said he goes to sleep most nights and wakes up most mornings worried about one thing: the state of generative AI governance in healthcare. To him, providers and other healthcare organizations are in dire need of frameworks to ensure their AI tools are safe and perform well over time.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
What Will It Take To Improve Healthcare Cybersecurity?
During a panel discussion at MedCity News’ INVEST Digital Health conference, three healthcare leaders shared their expert insight on what needs to change in order to improve the industry’s cybersecurity strategy.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Providers And Payers Are Increasing Their Tech Spend — Where Are They Investing The Most?
Three-quarters of U.S. providers and payers say they have increased their IT spending over the past year, according to a new report from Bain & Company and KLAS Research. Both providers and payers are investing in cybersecurity technology, as well as AI tools.
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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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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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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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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.