Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS), enterprise image systems, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

FBI seeking extradition of Israeli prisoner accused of $500M in ransomware attacks
Rostislav Panev is facing fraud and cybercrime charges in Israel, where he has been accused of being a software developer for hacker group LockBit.
Data breach at chain of clinics impacts 450K patients
The Center for Vein Restoration has notified patients about a data breach that occurred in October, exposing financial and medical information on patients from across the U.S.
Can large language models break language barriers in radiology reports?
With the growing demand for virtual care and an increasingly mobile population, the need to improve communication with non-English-speaking patients is immense.
Most patients want to know if AI is involved in their care
“With this signal about the public’s preference for notification, the question for health systems and policymakers is not whether to notify patients but when and how.”
Residents' structured reports get boost from software assistance
Structured reporting templates are known to have numerous clinical benefits, but less is known about how these reports can be utilized as training tools for residents.

Startup that helps radiology providers share imaging data with researchers raises $17M

Briya said its platform cuts through common challenges in the process, allowing organizations to generate “lucrative revenue streams."

September 26, 2023

Video of Natalie Edgworth at Providence Health System explaining how AI is used to optimizing staffing schedules. #HIMSS

AI takes on hospital staffing to help battle burnout

Specialists with Providence Health System developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm to help make staffing schedules more flexible and predict patient volumes.

September 25, 2023

Nuance notifying radiology patients after data security incident

The vendor is implementing new tools, processes and procedures to further strengthen the security of its IT systems following the incident.

September 25, 2023

Esteban Rubens, Oracle cloud field chief technology officer for healthcare, explains cloud’s role in enterprise imaging and healthcare IT and the movement away from on-premise data storage.

More and more hospitals are using the cloud for medical image storage

Cloud data storage is growing in medical imaging as a way of simplifying workflows and providing relief to health IT teams, Esteban Rubens explained in an interview.

September 22, 2023

GPT-4 unlocks key insights from free-text radiology reports

Both ChatGPT and GPT-4 were found to be be good at analyzing free-text notes for lung cancer insights. One of the two programs, however, was able to outperform the other.

September 21, 2023

Patients admitted with C. diff not a significant source of in-hospital transmission

Hospital patients who test positive for Clostridioides difficile immediately upon admission but show no symptoms are highly unlikely to spread the germ to other inpatients.

September 21, 2023