Data Warehousing

"Healthcare organizations cannot rely on legacy technologies to detect and respond to today’s attacks," says Ricardo Villadiego, CEO of cybersecurity firm Lumu.

A cyberattack investigation has found that files were stolen during the May incident, some of which "may contain" protected health information and personally identifiable information, the health system says.

The AHA and National Rural Health Association are also onboard for the initiative, which will offer grants, free endpoint security advice and other resources for critical access and emergency hospitals.

Moving legacy healthcare data into storage is a complex process that involves scanning for malware and retaining regulatory compliance and access, explains Tom Liddell, CEO of Harmony Healthcare IT.  

PointClickCare adds 40 Texas hospitals with a new partnership. A Connecticut state audit discovers undisclosed health information exchange data breaches. Oklahoma backpedals on its data exchange mandate.

DirectTrust works to improve interoperability between direct secure messaging platforms and get information service providers to help with secure information exchange, Scott Stuewe, president and CEO, discusses.  

Dr. Tim O'Connell, cofounder and CEO of Emtelligent, explains how NLP can quickly surface relevant data information buried in patient charts, helping guide clinicians' treatment decisions.  

While he praises the EU's data protection regulations, Eric Sutherland, senior health economist at the OECD, believes policies and standards must "harmonize" to ensure that public health organizations can access health data as needed.

CIO Craig Kwiatkowski describes some of the artificial intelligence tools in use at the Los Angeles health system – and shows how teams are employing an AI-powered primary care app to train on datasets that reflect diverse populations.

Bart de Witte, founder of Hippo AI Foundation, discusses challenges of developing open-source healthcare AI models, including the need to build them on quality management systems and the difficulty of accessing clinical data for training.