Andrea Fox
In a statement about its attack on Toronto-based SickKids, the cybercrime affiliate also offered a decryptor. Healthcare cybersecurity experts question whether the move was ethically motivated, or meant to enhance LockBit's recruitment image.
Designed to provide affordable health monitoring and wellness support at home, the virtual assistant could help providers increase treatment adherence rates and improve health outcomes for aging and chronically ill patients.
The regional pediatrics provider is working across teams and with the AMA to determine the best staffing models, reduce unnecessary daily burdens for clinicians and improve medical assistant-to-clinician ratios.
Workforce challenges, patient engagement efforts, ongoing interoperability hurdles and some big announcements from legacy EHR and Big Tech players were among the news and reports that captured the most attention this past year.
Cybersecurity breaches in healthcare continued at an alarming rate throughout the year, affecting operations and patient safety, while government agencies and policymakers focused on ways to improve resilience.
Efforts to harness artificial intelligence to streamline healthcare operations and improve patient outcomes accelerated this year, as providers strove to fine-tune algorithms and arrive at deeper insights into clinical and operational patterns.
The CGO will advance the county’s Aging Roadmap by helping to improve the coordination of health and social services and the detection, diagnosis and management of age-related diseases.
Leveraging AI, machine learning and neural networks can help healthcare standardize data, comply with info blocking requirements and improve health outcomes.
This was another challenging year for healthcare information security – but there's hope for the year ahead as technology and policy leaders promote new ideas to reduce risk and strengthen resilience.
LA Children's received the funding to predict how critically ill children handle medication by applying machine learning to identify clinically significant patterns from the ICU data of 20,000 patients.