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Electronic health records that deliver suboptimal user experience are more likely to lead to alert fatigue and less likely to catch errors that could impact hospital safety, University of Utah Health research shows.

Collaboration among health systems, vendors and regulators is critical to help guide the development and use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, says Dr. Brian Anderson, chief digital health physician at MITRE.

Guardians of the Grid, designed for individuals and organizations to use as a preparation tool, invites players to take their roles as cybercriminals or cyber defenders. The healthcare CISO who invented it wants to raise funding with Kickstarter.

OrthoVirginia's CIO Terri Ripley tells why the practice did not pay the millions attackers demanded. The practice embarked on an 18-month recovery process while continuing to serve patients coming in for overdue surgeries following the COVID-19 pandemic.

It has tapped Logicalis to support its digital transformation.

Also, Philips APAC has a new managing director.

Also, Genea runs an integrated surgery management system powered by Clintel's CareRight.

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.

"Nurses cannot be everywhere at once," says one expert in video monitoring, who sees promise in "watching AI" helping overworked RNs track patterns in hospital patients over longer periods of time to gain insights into their health trajectory.