by Jessica Casebolt | May 29, 2024 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
Artificial intelligence, particularly natural language processing (NLP), is revolutionizing health care by aiding in tasks like suicide risk assessment. With suicide rates rising, NLP offers a unique solution by analyzing patient text entries for signs of suicidal...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 28, 2024 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
Health care’s cybersecurity challenges have shined a light on how the industry has failed to protect patient data by not dedicating enough resources to address the problem. Health systems and insurers are dealing with the aftermath of the industry’s latest large-scale...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 22, 2024 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
Electronic health record company Epic launched an open-source tool on Wednesday that will allow health care providers to test and validate artificial intelligence models. The tool is free and available through the public coding website Github, where health systems can...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 21, 2024 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
The U.S. government is seeking to play a more active role in protecting the private health care sector from a deluge of cyberattacks that have disrupted patient care and left providers unpaid. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday unveiled a new...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 20, 2024 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
Epic Systems was the only electronic health record vendor to increase its market share in 2023, according to a new report. The Wisconsin-based company added beds and customers, increasing its total market share to 39 percent of acute care hospitals and 52 percent of...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a first-of-its-kind settlement with a data broker that the regulator alleged sold data that could be used to track visits to locations like medical clinics. The FTC alleged that Outlogic, formerly known as X-Mode Social,...
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