Clinical
According to Svava María Atladóttir, chief transformation officer at Iceland's Landspítali National University Hospital, clinical and IT staff are actively collaborating to improve its in-house EHR and clinical portal.
Through its partnership with DispatchHealth, MedStar Health is now providing care in patient homes after hospital stays and emergency visits, or through virtual healthcare referrals.
Eric Liederman, chief executive officer of CyberSolutionsMD, says developing an "all of us approach" on what to do and how to do it can help even advanced organizations protect healthcare delivery when ransomware hits or affects a nearby hospital.
Jonathan Bauer, CIO at Atlantic General Hospital Health System, says when Change Healthcare was attacked and Atlantic couldn't bill for a month, it helped bring the need for a robust cybersecurity system front of mind to board members.
AI & ML Intelligence
He has boasted about the accuracy of subscription-based Grok artificial intelligence for analyzing medical images, but physicians and researchers say the model's ability to diagnose medical conditions is limited, and privacy experts have concerns.
UC Davis Health chief AI advisor Dennis Chornenky points to knowledge of policy, business strategy, technology and healthcare – as technologies are evolving much more quickly than governance can catch up.
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Healthcare chief AI officers have to have rare combination of skills, just as complex as the artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies they oversee.
The medtech company says it is the only manufacturer of FDA-approved pulse oximeters to have reached an agreement in a lawsuit against many over the devices' notoriously higher rates of error for people with darker skin.
The AP reports that OpenAI's Whisper documentation platform is prone to hallucinations, and to making up sentences and sections of text across millions of recordings. Tens of thousands of transcriptions could be faulty.