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In an increasingly competitive healthcare landscape, a strong digital presence and a superior care experience can be decisive factors in attracting and retaining patients, says one health IT consultant.

Through a recently completed multipronged red-teaming effort, the agency said it will develop repeatable testing datasets that can be used to evaluate large language model tools and services in the future.

Generative AI and other technologies can help ease the clinician shortage by augmenting the work of doctors and nurses and offering significant outcomes, says Accenture Health Strategy Lead Brian P. Kalis.

As one telemedicine CEO looks to the year ahead, he predicts RPM will improve outcomes for congestive heart failure patients and help manage those on the wildly popular GLP-1 diabetes and weight loss medications.

For seven years, the cardiac surgical team has leveraged computational fluid dynamics software to provide consistent preoperative planning for pediatric congenital heart disease patients and improve outcomes. Sharing workflows is reaching more patients.

That has culminated in an estimated $21.9 billion in downtime losses over the past six years, a new report shows, with medical organizations experiencing 17 days of downtime per incident, on average.

This past year was a busy one, with new policy changes, cybersecurity challenges, EHR optimization advancements, innovations in patient care and, yes, a whole lot of AI.

It was another record-breaking year for healthcare cyberattacks, and healthcare providers' network servers were again prime targets for hackers.

The agency seeks to make its first HIPAA Security Rule update since 2013 to clarify what health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, providers and their business associates must do to protect the security of electronic protected health information.