The healthcare industry is a prime target of organized cyberattacks, as has been shown near daily for the past decade-plus. The urgency of contingency planning has finally been made clear, from the boardroom to the situation room, exam rooms and administrative back offices.  Health system chief information security officers are at the forefront of one of the

Suki this week announced new plans to partner with Zoom Video Communications for artificial intelligence-enabled telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS The companies say Zoom will use Suki’s AI engine, Suki Platform, to generate clinical notes and will integrate other automation tools to boost provider experience and patient care. Suki’s technology will help power ambient clinical documentation

Medical education in Asia may be headed to a future where institutions are not only training students but also training AI models.  In the HIMSS24 APAC session, “Implementing AI in Healthcare,” Dr Hyung-Chul Lee, deputy CIO of Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH), shared how their hospital develops, validates, and implements AI technologies.  “For more than 100 years

Security concerns and vendor restrictions are some of the major barriers to unlocking health data’s full potential in raising patient outcomes. In the HIMSS24 APAC plenary session, “Power of Data in Modern Healthcare,” Cho Chi-Heum, professor and president of Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center in South Korea, and Dr Shih-Sheng Chang, director of the Artificial Intelligence

The Carequality interoperability framework released the results of an independent resolution in the dispute between Epic and Particle Health on Tuesday, but both parties appear further entrenched in their stated opposition. “The Carequality Steering Committee resolution confirms that Particle Health customers inappropriately accessed people’s medical records by falsely claiming to be treating them as patients,” an Epic

A new partnership with Amazone One Medical, which offers hybrid virtual and in-person primary care, aims to expand access to high-quality coordinated care in Northeast Ohio, Cleveland Clinic said in an announcement Monday. WHY IT MATTERS Patient access to essential health services is behind the collaboration, according to Dr. Tom Mihaljevic, Cleveland Clinic’s chief executive

Aidoc announced on Monday that it’s working with NVIDIA to develop a framework for more effective deployment and integration of artificial intelligence tools in healthcare. The Blueprint for Resilient Integration and Deployment of Guided Excellence, or BRIDGE, a guideline that aims to accelerate AI adoption across the healthcare industry. WHY IT MATTERS The Blueprint for

“Analytics as a discipline has changed dramatically in the last five to 10 years – and for sure in the past five,” says Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS. “With the explosion of artificial intelligence – the ChatGPT era, if you will – large language models have really shifted the needle on where

Implementing AI at a national scale, particularly in such critical industries as healthcare, is no easy feat.  In the HIMSS24 APAC session, “Implementing AI-Powered Triage for a National Virtual and Digital Front Door,” Dr Nirvana Luckraj, chief medical officer of Healthdirect, described how they chose, tested, and deployed an AI-powered clinical decision support system to

Several healthcare IT vendors have unveiled new offerings that help health systems improve patient access, address provider burdens and drive cost optimization over the past week.  Oracle Health said Monday that it wants to help tame provider administrative challenges by replacing manual processes with cloud-based automated claims processing, while Luma Health on Tuesday released machine