In October 2022, the White House released its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, which outlined concerns about the use of artificial intelligence in various industries, including healthcare. It provides guidelines for how to address algorithmic discrimination and data privacy concerns. The five principles of the framework are safe and effective systems; algorithmic discrimination protections; data privacy; notice...
In the first half of 2023, more than 41 million people were reportedly impacted by data breaches at healthcare organizations, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights breach portal.
The number of breaches reported was 319, down from 337 in the first half of 2022. While fewer breaches have been reported year over...
The idea of visiting an AI-powered robot for your medical care may still be the stuff of Hollywood movies, but artificial intelligence is far from fictional in the healthcare industry. Providers and researchers widely use AI-powered tools designed to improve clinical efficiencies, prevent errors and advance treatments.
“AI is a support and augmentation tool,” explains Dr. Mona Flores, the global...
The software bill of materials is emerging as a key ingredient for healthcare organizations to ensure medical device security and supply chain management.
The SBOM, a “list of ingredients that make up software components,” as defined by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, helps identify software in connected medical devices such insulin pumps and MRI machines that contain security...
While clinicians, staff members and patients have been conditioned to be skeptical of unusual messages that land in email inboxes, suspicious calls and texts present another vulnerability.
People often avoid unknown numbers trying to contact them, but it only takes one unwitting victim to undermine the security of an entire organization. Health systems now find themselves on the receiving end...
In recent years, the frequency and sophistication of ransomware attacks have continued to escalate. In many cases, those attacks have piled up significant costs for their victims, and not just from the ransom payment. Extended downtime after an attack, expensive recovery efforts and reputational damage all hurt a healthcare organization’s profits after a breach, not to mention the potential...
Long gone are the days when physicians made house calls to care for their neighbors and got paid directly with cash or even goods and services. As healthcare and technology have advanced over the past several decades and payer models have evolved, so have the expectations of physicians and their patients.
Patients started making appointments to visit doctors’ offices, and...
New or improved artificial intelligence-powered solutions are continuing to make healthcare headlines, especially as industry leaders keep a wary eye on workforce challenges.
Google Cloud and Mayo Clinic announced a partnership to help build out generative AI tools for healthcare. BayCare Health System hopes to ease nurses’ documentation burdens with natural language processing support. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers...
Through analytics, the Department of Justice was able to track down 16 people in Michigan and Ohio, including 12 physicians, who were sentenced last year for submitting more than $250 million in false claims and illegally distributing more than 6.6 million opioid pills.
Data analyzed by the DOJ’s Health Care Fraud Unit uncovered a list of doctors who gave patients...
The adoption of remote healthcare is continuing its meteoric rise. The U.S. telehealth market is expected to reach $309.9 billion by 2030. And hospital environments are growing increasingly complex as the Internet of Medical Things becomes more mainstream.
These aspects pose new challenges for healthcare IT professionals who must manage and secure medical devices and critical data at the network’s edge....
