In its third year, healthcare cybersecurity research conducted by Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint aimed to determine whether the healthcare industry saw progress in maintaining care delivery in the face of four types of pervasive cyberattacks – cloud compromise, supply chain, ransomware and business-email compromise. While respondents found that attacks had a direct negative impact on … Read more
Dr. Eve Cunningham is group vice president and chief of virtual care and digital health at health system Providence and founder of MedPearl. And Providence is getting ready to spin off MedPearl. MedPearl is a platform designed to support clinicians at the point of care by providing them with next-best actions and curated patient data. … Read more
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 … Read more
Mumbai/Chennai: The Indian rupee on Thursday ended at a record low of 84.06 against the US dollar driven by a strong greenback and outflows by foreign portfolio investments (FPIs) from the equity market. Volatile oil prices amid escalation between Israel and Iran also contributed to this depreciation. The rupee has lost 0.3 per cent in … Read more
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 … Read more
You’ve probably heard of test-tube babies, but have you ever encountered the concept of a human brain grown in a petri dish? Before any dramatic imagery comes to mind, it’s important to clarify that it’s not as graphic as it may seem. These are brain organoids — 3D tissue structures grown in a laboratory from … Read more
“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 … Read more
With Assembly polls in Maharashtra due on November 20, the Opposition there is being forced to carry the albatross of the recent Haryana outcome. Right or wrong, the BJP’s shock victory in Haryana has sent a chill down the Opposition’s spine in Maharashtra ahead of thekeenly-contested Assembly polls. Haryana handed a shock defeat to the … Read more
One of the biggest daily challenges faced by healthcare providers is obtaining accurate diagnostic answers in a timely manner. Clinicians spend years training in physical diagnosis, mastering techniques such as listening to hearts and lungs with a stethoscope, palpating the abdomen, and examining painful joints. THE PROBLEM But even in the most expert hands, these … Read more
Hyderabad: Dr Giriraj Ratan Chandak Sir J.C. Bose Fellow at CCMB and director of Sickle Cell Anaemia Mission, and his associates have developed a molecular test for screening of the genetic disease with a mere drop of blood. Though sickle cell anaemia is a fatal disease, only one in three people screened in India is … Read more