WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Halloween this Thursday at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, attendees heard a fright-inducing list of recent Healthcare IT News headlines, all from just this October: A warning this week from the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center about Scattered Spider – an appropriately creepy-crawly name – a cybercrime group that leverages ransomware

Hospitals and health systems large and small announced new plans for their electronic health record deployments in September. Two of the bigger ones have opted to migrate to Epic Systems, while Oracle Health has won two new critical access hospitals. ‘Platform of choice’ Delaware-based ChristianaCare recently posted a job listing for a vice president of

Responsible artificial intelligence is basically the only way to go if one is implementing AI technology at their hospital or health system. It is crucial that AI, as complex and important as it is, be trustworthy. Anand Rao is a service professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. He is an expert in responsible AI

The U.S. will face a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2026. While AI has been touted as an ideal solution to this problem, adoption in the healthcare industry has been lagging. This certainly is not a new problem, but it is one that many experts believe can no longer be pushed off. Elena Branche, product director at Druid

Oracle on Tuesday offered a sneak peek at its next-generation electronic health record which, more than two years since the company’s acquisition of Cerner, it says was rebuilt “from the ground up” to offer the security and performance of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. WHY IT MATTERS Unveiled at the Oracle Health Summit in Nashville, the new

The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has published its final 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategy, which seeks to enhance care delivery and experiences for patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, public health professionals and others in the healthcare continuum. By focusing on person-centered, inclusive design as

Premise Health provides primary care services for large organizations, including self-insured employers, labor unions and health plans. It faced several challenges working with claims data. THE PROBLEM First, it wanted to provide clients with a greater level of data. It knew it was creating positive outcomes based on encouraging anecdotes, positive member testimonials and high

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has published a sector alert to advise on mitigations to defend against U.S. and UK-based threat actors that initially targeted customer relationship management, business process outsourcing and technology companies in 2022  – and have since shifted to gaming, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and financial sectors. Scattered Spider, also known by

AI may be optimally applied in healthcare settings without overstepping human boundaries.  “When it comes to AI, I still apply principles of the physician’s Hippocratic Oath but repurposed – AI shall do no harm, we will maintain equity and confidentiality, and above all, a human must be kept in the loop,” shared Dr Shankar Sridharan

Organisational readiness, prevailing regulations, and user understanding are some factors that impact the success of AI deployment in health systems. During the HIMSS24 APAC panel session, “AI Horizons: Exploring the Future of Innovations,” Professor In-Young Choi, vice CIO of Catholic Medical Centre (CMC), Dr Shankar Sridharan, chief clinical information officer at Great Ormond Street Hospital