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Andrea Fox

Andrea Fox

Andrea Fox is Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News. She has 20 years of experience covering numerous beats, including digital modernization, public health, environment and utilities, transportation and government policy and operations.

By Andrea Fox | 11:28 am | July 20, 2023
A new API that uses algorithms and proprietary machine learning to enhance energy usage data can alert caregivers about unusual habits that may require intervention.
By Andrea Fox | 12:29 pm | July 19, 2023
The HIPAA-compliant video analytics platform will be layered on UMC’s existing security systems. When it identifies guns, trained experts verify the threat and can dispatch alerts and intelligence to the police.
By Andrea Fox | 10:45 am | July 19, 2023
Threat actors are using artificial intelligence for both designing and executing attacks on hospitals and health systems. HC3 used ChatGPT to show how bad actors leverage generative AI to design spear-phishing emails and malware.
By Andrea Fox | 11:38 am | July 18, 2023
Artificial intelligence has changed the threat landscape, enabling new cybersecurity risks for health systems: more sophisticated social engineering, automated vulnerability intelligence gathering, endpoint detection evasion and more.
By Andrea Fox | 11:59 am | July 14, 2023
University of Texas researchers found that symptoms of certain diseases are more difficult for patients to communicate and doctors to observe over video. Other limitations mean little cost-reduction benefit from telehealth when compared to in-person care.
By Andrea Fox | 11:58 am | July 14, 2023
Health Care Service Corporation is using augmented intelligence to accelerate prior authorization – up to 1,400 times faster – and an AI tool that references historical authorizations and claims to authorize treatment "within seconds," the company says.
By Andrea Fox | 11:47 am | July 13, 2023
Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University developed three new natural language processing algorithms to extract housing, financial and employment data.
By Andrea Fox | 11:25 am | July 13, 2023
The health system is one of six institutions that will use advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning for a $52M NIH-funded phenotyping research project targeting acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia and sepsis.
By Andrea Fox | 11:51 am | July 12, 2023
Eleven healthcare organizations have also joined the Data Usability Taking Root project, which is designed to improve the quality and actionability of health information received by end users within their workflows.
By Andrea Fox | 10:15 am | July 12, 2023
AT&T's annual industry insights report revealed a shift in focus from consumer virtual care in 2022 to richer budgeting for tele-emergency medical services.