The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is unveiling a new department-wide restructuring that it says will “streamline and bolster” strategy and policymaking for information technology, cybersecurity, data and artificial intelligence. WHY IT MATTERS The aim is to capitalize on new opportunities across those fast-evolving technologies, according to HHS, and will redistribute responsibility across

Ultimately improving the quality of care healthcare systems deliver and preventing harm requires a degree of self-reflection. Along with digital transformation, putting an easy-to-use incident reporting system in place can help healthcare organizations address today’s chief patient safety concerns, including medication errors, care delays, workplace violence and preventing patient falls, said Heidi Raines, founder and

ABDM, tele-mental health budgets reduced Early this week, India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the official Union Budget for 2024-2025.  For healthcare, the government set aside Rs 90,958.63 crore ($10.8 billion), rising by nearly 13% from last year’s Rs 80,517.62 crore ($9.6 billion). This includes Rs 200 crore ($24 million) for the Ayushman Bharat Digital

Many affected health systems say they’re back up and running, days after a global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update that took millions of Microsoft systems offline on July 19. The outage affected industries around the world – not least healthcare, where it caused some providers to revert to pen and paper after

GE HealthCare this past week said it will acquire the clinical artificial intelligence business of Intelligent Ultrasound Group. The price for the software buy is about $51 million, the companies said. WHY IT MATTERS Intelligent Ultrasound develops AI-enabled imaging analytics tools that integrate with ultrasounds to enable more efficient diagnostics. GE says it will incorporate

In a time of inflation, talent shortages, supply chain challenges and shrinking capital, healthcare decision-makers must be more adept than ever at stretching dollars. And those headwinds are spurring some health system leaders to blaze new trails with emergency medical service providers in the world of artificial intelligence. “AI and predictive modeling are driving everything

One of the top authorities on pop health, Dr. Michael Dulin of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, explains how AI can curate complex data, evaluate risk and predict changes…

A misconfigured CrowdStrike Falcon update pushed to Windows early Friday morning has caused millions of computers to show the infamous “blue screen of death,” and has disrupted care delivery at hospitals, health systems and medical practices in the U.S., U.K., Israel, Germany and other countries.  Clinicians are working manually to provide patient care in the absence

A series of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities are affecting Philips’ Vue Picture Archiving and Communication Systems Versions prior to 12.2.8.410, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said this past week. They could allow cybercriminals to view or modify data, gain system access, perform code execution, install unauthorized software or otherwise affect data integrity and system availability.

Three-dimensional reconstruction and modeling technology is not new in hospitals. In fact, many organizations have dedicated radiology technologists that perform 3D reconstructions from cross-sectional images. THE PROBLEM The results of their work are typically saved back to PACS, essentially as a video of predetermined angles – often referred to as a rotational cine or turntable