John Riggi, the first national advisor for cybersecurity and risk for the American Hospital Association, has been tracking cyber threats to the AHA’s more than 5,000 members, and helping many of them deal with mission-critical tasks such as ransomware recovery and response, for the past five years. Before that, he spent nearly 30 years investigating

Covenant Health expanded its high acuity care hospital-at-home program in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. WHY IT MATTERS A suite of electronics is enabling patients from Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center facility and now Parkwest Medical Center with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, cellulitis and more to recuperate at home, according to a local WATE ABC6 report.

Following conversations in Washington and state capitals, the American Telemedicine Association published its new Health Data Privacy Principles this week.  They’re meant to address concerns about state privacy laws governing consumer health data, according to ATA, which is urging policymakers to ensure conditions that stimulate innovation and advance patient access to virtual care. WHY IT

A new five-year partnership between Duke and Microsoft includes the creation of a Duke Health AI Innovation Lab and Center of Excellence.  WHY IT MATTERS As part of the new agreement, Microsoft says it will construct a secure cloud environment to train and foster a cloud-savvy IT workforce at the Durham, North Carolina-based health system

Cone Health is a North Carolina-based nonprofit health system serving patients across 150 locations, including five hospitals and more than 120 physician practices. THE PROBLEM It had a peer review paper-based process that was inefficient and cumbersome. Due to its outdated nature, physician engagement was not optimal. One of the biggest issues was the effort

Whether at home, on vacation or in the hospital, patients and care providers want access to innovative technologies that can expedite the delivery of medical advice, prescriptions, referrals and action when it is needed most. Virtual care technologies and artificial intelligence are helping health systems and healthcare retailers to improve care delivery. Amazon Clinic virtual

Healthcare costs have spiraled out of control in the United States. But studies have shown how as much as one-third of healthcare expenditures can be attributed to wasteful or fraudulent healthcare services. THE PROBLEM There’s also evidence that underserved communities are at higher risk for receiving wasteful care – and exposure to unnecessary procedures that

Medanta, a private healthcare provider group in India, has introduced a 24/7 remote and virtual service for patients in the ICU. It has partnered with GE HealthCare to launch the Medanta e-ICU Command Centre which will provide 24/7 advanced consultation, care, and near-real-time monitoring of critically ill patients “without having to physically transfer them to

Private healthcare provider group Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care will be adopting a radiology AI solution from the Australian startup annalise.ai.   The official deployment of Annalise Enterprise CXR follows an earlier proof-of-concept study where the technology was found to have “amplified” radiologists’ ability to detect critical findings from chest X-rays.  Built on AWS cloud infrastructure

To provide high-quality patient care, physicians and other clinicians need quick and easy access to patient records. Yet many health systems struggle to deliver comprehensive information in a consistent format precisely when it’s needed most – at the point of care. THE PROBLEM Baptist Health, which serves the Jacksonville, Florida, community through a wide-reaching healthcare