Andrea Fox

A software patch is available to prevent cybersecurity threats to patient care, genomic data and provider networks from software vulnerabilities in Illumina's benchtop and production-scale genomic sequencing instruments.

The new APFIT funding enables DoD to further the Defense Innovation Unit's use of algorithms to analyze biometric data from commercial wearables and predict infections up to 48 hours before service members' symptoms appear.

While legislators offer proposals to recalibrate the development and rein in the deployment and oversight of the VA's Oracle Cerner electronic health records, other leaders want to scrap the system altogether.

While stakeholders agree the new interoperability and decision support rules could improve quality outcomes, some note that significant up-front commitment is needed for health IT developers while providers still document care with unstructured data.

The new 'Patient Progression Hub' is a hospital operations control center housing a video wall with customized AI-driven apps and interfaces that monitor and manage patient flows. 

The aspirational model is intended to serve as a starting point and a path forward for healthcare, health data and government leaders to follow in creating HDUs, says the consortium of health data organizations. 

The FHIR-enabled platform supports provider tools that integrate algorithms and machine learning to improve patient diagnoses.

By leveraging ML and artificial intelligence services, 3M will expedite, refine and scale the delivery of its real-time speech recognition platform, the company says.

The Defense Health Agency is launching a data-centric path to making military medicine "more precise, personal, predictive, preventive and participatory," said its new director, Army Lieutenant General Dr. Telita Crosland, at HIMS23.

"This is where all of the staff in our hospital start to become cyber first responders. They know what to look for, they know who to call, and they know what to do," said Nate Lesser, VP and CISO at Children's National Hospital, at HIMSS23.