While nearly all computational methods operate on pseudonymized personal data, re-identification remains a risk. With personal health data, this re-identification risk may be considered a double-crossing of patients’ trust. Herein, we present a new…
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group released a new guide Wednesday to help the public and private sectors in healthcare better align their…
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Microsoft and MITRE have developed a tool that works like an automated adversarial attack library for those that lack a deep background in machine learning or artificial intelligence, providing insights on how these attacks…
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Trenholm Ninestein, Director of Product and Digital Health Lead at Rightpoint The good news on the medical front is that with advances in therapy, people with chronic diseases are able to remain in their…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT system has sent the topic of artificial intelligence through the roof.But so many professionals across industries, including healthcare, do not truly understand how AI works – especially how the different forms of…
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Although it was signed into law in 2016, portions of the 21st Century Cures Act, the provisions designed to support interoperability continue created the need for new rules by the Centers for Medicare and…
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The American Hospital Association and HITRUST say they are optimistic about the Biden Administration’s nearly 40-page national cybersecurity policy proposal in its strategies to fight destabilizing cybercrime and cyberterrorism.WHY IT MATTERS
After continued waves of ransomware attacks…
The following is a guest article by Tamara Badza is a manager at Inviggo.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed the healthcare industry, allowing for the collection and analysis of vast amounts of data…
The class action lawsuits filed by Herman Herman & Katz allege Meta Pixel code potentially analyzed, gathered and shared the sensitive medical data of hundreds of thousands of patients across the LCMC Health Systems and Willis-Knighton Health System networks.WHY IT MATTERS
Pixel technology uses a Java tracking script to send an organization’s data to the technology owner, which in this case, is Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Tracked data could be shared with network marketing partners who target individuals with offers and advertisements.
The new class action lawsuit alleges that visitors to the health system websites may have had their protected…
Providers and Payers would be familiar with a situation where their medical coders struggle to proceed when there is more than one way to code a particular medical diagnosis and treatment.
The latest revision of WHO’s International Classification of Diseases ICD-11 contains 17,000 unique codes and more than 120,0000 codable terms yielding +1.6 million clinical situations! Searching for the most appropriate ICD code and mapping the available medical data accurately is one of the biggest challenges the healthcare system faces today.
Unstructured medical data is another perennial challenge. About 80% of medical data remains unstructured according to an NCBI journal. Extracting…
