Data Warehousing

Several factors combined to hit healthcare hardest again this year, but new research by the Ponemon Institute and IBM Security also found that using artificial intelligence in security reduced attacks' severity in terms of cost and recovery time.

Provider organizations that wish to engage in population health management must continually monitor, optimize and improve their data processes, says one analytics leader.

The HSA company says it has discovered "unauthorized access to and potential disclosure of protected health information and/or personally identifiable information stored in an unstructured data repository outside our core systems."

In her AI classes for medical students, Stéphanie Allassonière, professor of applied mathematics at the Univérsite Paris Cité, first teaches them how to properly collect and clean data to get the most accurate responses out of AI tools.  

Saurabh Gombar, adjunct faculty at Stanford Health Care and chief medical officer at Atropos Health, details a study analyzing five LLMs, including ChatGPT and Gemini, examining accuracy and efficacy of the models' output.

Zen Healthcare IT's interoperability platform creates a "gateway" for healthcare data exchange between technology vendors and customers, explains Marilee Benson, president and cofounder.  

As more health systems merge, making smart and strategic use of datasets drawn from disparate systems is essential to clinical and operational success, says Advocate Health Chief Data Officer Tina Esposito.

While the healthcare group "strongly supports" CIRCIA's security goals, it's urging the Homeland Security agency to "consider the challenges covered entities face during and immediately after experiencing a cyberattack."

Sharing real-world patient data with researchers could help optimize clinical trials and drive discoveries in precision medicine, says Gaurav Sharma, senior director, global client partner at Cognizant.  

Ricardo Jorge Constantino, head of Clinical Innovation Europe at NTT DATA, describes innovation in clinical trials and measures to drive rapid adoption of insights from these trials into clinical practice.