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You can't just toss AI onto the CIO or CTO titles. Overseeing artificial intelligence in clinical and business environments, standing up a governance structure, and managing portfolios of tools for different patient types requires deep experience.
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At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Thursday, leaders from the Health Sector Coordinating Council offered advice for collaborative layered defense, to help health systems bolster responsiveness and stabilize their security postures.
The medtech company says it is the only manufacturer of FDA-approved pulse oximeters to have reached an agreement in a lawsuit against many over the devices' notoriously higher rates of error for people with darker skin.
A healthcare artificial intelligence expert also discusses foundational first steps hospitals and health systems should take when looking to adopt AI and how AI can be used to free up time and fight burnout for staff.
The AP reports that OpenAI's Whisper documentation platform is prone to hallucinations, and to making up sentences and sections of text across millions of recordings. Tens of thousands of transcriptions could be faulty.
Previewed at the company's annual summit, the electronic health record, built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, offers secure automation across clinical workflows, enabling faster insights at the point of care with streamlined documentation and more.
The tools have helped the health system grow demand for data-driven healthcare services, measure member attribution, and gain significant cost savings from identifying and acting on key healthcare utilization patterns.
The agency warns that a Western organized cybercrime group that leverages multiple ransomware variants and AI tools to commit advanced social engineering exploits may target healthcare data.
EHR customers could take part in the direct sharing of health information – including X-rays and MRIs – between providers, payers, government agencies and others under the TEFCA nationwide interoperability framework.
