Mike Miliard
Cybersecurity leaders from Intermountain, UCLA Medical and SoNE Health discuss the "delicate balance" of educating hospital staff – not just to avoid phishing tricks, but to gain understanding and appreciation for day-to-day cyber hygiene.
John Riggi, national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association, sees a fraught cyber threat landscape that's being transformed by artificial intelligence. He previews his keynote at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.
Despite difficulties with in-depth scans and legacy software risks, the director of medical device and IoT security at Henry Ford Health says more responsibility from device manufacturers and new regs from the FDA make him optimistic.
The healthcare giant will expand its work with Google to help automate workflows and streamline documentation for ED physicians, among other initial use cases.
As part of the program, the AI-enabled contact center as a service company will expand its existing integration with Epic's electronic health record software and Cheers CRM suite.
New York's HEALTHeLINK and Boston Children's Hospital are recognized by HHS for their exploration of advanced FHIR capabilities and USCDI data quality improvement, respectively.
Microsoft says its Azure Large Instances technology is helping the health system better manage its electronic health records, enabling as many as 50 million database accesses per second.
With a cohort of health systems including Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, Stanford Health and others, its QHIN efforts are aimed at advancing information exchange at providers nationwide, says Matt Doyle, interoperability software development lead at Epic.
As they grapple with rising costs, three in four C-suite leaders say recent artificial intelligence advancements will "reshape the industry," according to a new Bain & Company report. But just 6% have an organizational plan to harness it.
Sen. Mark Warner has questions for Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai about Med-PaLM 2, a chatbot currently being piloted at the Mayo Clinic and elsewhere. "I worry that premature deployment of unproven technology could lead to the erosion of trust," he says.