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Patient Monitor Security Flaws Trigger FDA Alert

DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday February 7, 2025)
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Critical Security Vulnerabilities Discovered
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has raised serious concerns about cybersecurity vulnerabilities affecting patient monitors manufactured by Chinese company Contec Medical Systems. These security flaws potentially enable cybercriminals to bypass…

AI Shows 99.5% Accuracy in Nephrology Triage

DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday February 7, 2025)
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Key Findings in AI Nephrology Research
Mayo Clinic researchers have demonstrated that ChatGPT achieves remarkable accuracy in triaging nephrology cases, offering promising solutions for healthcare optimization. The AI system correctly identified consultation needs with 99.5%…

Bamboo Health Appoints Ross Armstrong as Chief Commercial Officer

HIT Consultant - (Friday February 7, 2025)
Digital Health/ Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant

Ross Armstrong, Chief Commercial Officer at Bamboo Health

What You Should Know: 

– Bamboo Health, a provider of Real-Time Care Intelligence™ solutions, announced the appointment of Ross Armstrong as its new Chief Commercial Officer. 

– Armstrong brings…

Real-time emergency wait list portal live in Queensland and more briefs

Healthcare IT news - (Friday February 7, 2025)
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‘Open Hospitals’ live in Queensland The Queensland government has launched an online portal for tracking wait times and patients in line for treatments at emergency departments in near real-time.
The Open Hospitals portal, updated every 15-30…

Healthengine collabs with Google and more briefs

MobiHealthNews - (Friday February 7, 2025)
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Healthengine allows direct booking from GooglePrimary care booking platform Healthengine has added a new booking pathway in partnership with Google.
The Reserve with Google feature allows patients to book appointments directly from a practice’s Google…

MediBuddy to develop health IoT devices and more India briefs

MobiHealthNews - (Friday February 7, 2025)
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MediBuddy developing IoT devices with Japan’s ELECOMVirtual care company MediBuddy has started collaborating with Japanese electronics maker ELECOM to develop health IoT devices. 
In a media release, MediBuddy said it will develop products for daily…

Why Teladoc Health is Acquiring Catapult Health for $65M – MedCity News

MedCity News - (Friday February 7, 2025)
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Many predicted increased M&A activity in the digital health space in 2025, and so far they seem to be right. On Wednesday, telemedicine company Teladoc Health announced that it plans to acquire virtual preventive…

EU issues guidelines on banned AI practices

MobiHealthNews - (Friday February 7, 2025)
AI/ Frequent Updates/ MobiHealthNews

The European Union has released Guidelines to provide legal clarity on the prohibited uses of AI within the EU AI Act to ensure effective, consistent and uniform application and protect European citizens’ rights and…

Challenges with reinforcement learning model transportability for sepsis treatment in emergency care

npj Digital Medicine - (Friday February 7, 2025)
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Pivotal moments in sepsis care occur in the emergency department (ED), however, and it is unclear whether ED data is adequate to inform reinforcement learning (RL) models. We evaluated the early opportunity for the…

News 2/7/25 – HIStalk

HIStalk - (Friday February 7, 2025)
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Top News

Teladoc Health will acquire Catapult Health, a virtual checkup provider that sells to employers and health plans, for $65 million in cash, valuing the company at 2x annual revenue.
Teladoc plans to…


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