Andrea Fox

The new lab will evaluate artificial intelligence in the health domain in a simulated real-world environment, help innovators refine their machine learning models and offer AI workforce development training.

As part of its Vision 2030 launch, the health system said that adopting new clinical and operational applications represents a "significant leap forward" in digital transformation.

The organization has released a draft framework to ensure that algorithms and artificial intelligence applications in healthcare perform responsibly, and in the service of better health for all. 

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With AI-powered pharmaco-clinical intelligence, the not-for-profit health system aims to identify and monitor high-risk polypharmacy patients and recommend clinical Interventions.

Senators Hawley and Blumenthal asked UnitedHealth Group how Change Healthcare's systems were breached, why the clearinghouse suffered "such an egregious and unexplained outage" and the extent of data compromised in the ransomware attack.

The agency says threat actors are targeting organizations' IT help desks with phone calls from a local area code claiming to be revenue cycle or administrator employees. After gaining access, they divert legitimate payments.

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S.A.R.A.H. is a 24/7 digital health promoter prototype, available by video or text in eight languages, trained with biological artificial intelligence to provide health information, including mental health resources.

The health system's new remote acute care unit aims to improve healthcare access and equity for eligible patients with daily clinical home visits and remote patient monitoring through its Medically Home technology.