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Microsoft, MIT, Verily Partner to Advance Biomedical Innovation

January 14, 2021 - Microsoft, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Verily, an Alphabet company recently announced a strategic partnership to accelerate biomedical innovations through the Terra platform. Terra is a secure, scalable, open-source platform for biomedical researchers to access data, run analysis tools, and collaborate. Using the Tera platform,...

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Addenbrooke’s Hospital Taps Microsoft for AI Technology

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft recently announced that Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England will become the first hospital in the world to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improve cancer...

IBM Launches Blockchain-Powered Digital Health Pass for COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

IBM recently developed a blockchain-powered digital health passport platform to allow individuals to store and share their health status while protecting their privacy.  IBM Digital Health Pass...

Microsoft Azure Forms Collaboration to Enhance AI in Healthcare

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft Azure, UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI), Fortanix, and Intel recently collaborated to establish a confidential computing platform to boost artificial...

NIH to Collect Patient Data with New COVID-19 Analytics Platform

by Samantha McGrail

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched a new COVID-19 analytics platform that will provided a centralized, secure enclave to analyze medical record data from coronavirus patients to...

Google Cloud, Splunk Help Orgs Boost IT Infrastructure Security

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud and Splunk Inc, recently announced a strategic partnership to help organizations leverage data analytics for IT infrastructure security and drive actionable insights from their...

Google Cloud Unveils COVID-19 Data Sharing Platform For Providers

by Samantha McGrail

HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud recently launched a COVID-19 data sharing platform to enable the exchange of key information during the pandemic.  The COVID-19 National Response Portal, operated...

Working From Home Exposes New Billing Data Security Threats

by Samantha McGrail

Organizations are facing significant data security risks as stay-at-home orders increase and the first major remote billing cycle is carried out remotely, according to the Association of IT Asset...

Interoperability Platform Ensures Access to COVID-19 Patient Data

by Samantha McGrail

A leading internet and information services company recently announced that it will offer healthcare providers free access to on-demand patient record query through its healthcare interoperability...

83% of Medical Imaging Devices Run on Unbacked Operating Systems

by Samantha McGrail

According to a recent report, 83 percent of medical imaging devices are running on unsupported operating systems, a 56 percent jump from 2018.  Paloalto Network’s 2020 Unit 42 IoT Threat...

Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Healthcare

by Samantha McGrail

Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is gradually becoming more prominent in health systems, but 75 percent of healthcare insiders are concerned that AI could threaten the security and privacy of...

Blockchain Technology to Evolve in 4 Phases, Predicts Gartner

by Fred Donovan

Blockchain technology, which is already making an impact in healthcare, will evolve in four phases over the next decade, predicted Gartner. The high-tech research firm advised chief information...

NSF Grants $225K to Integrate Graphene with Nexus Blockchain Protocol

by Fred Donovan

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $225,000 grant to integrate new Graphene technology with SimplyVital Health’s Nexus blockchain protocol. Graphene is a block propagation...

Radiologists’ Societies Warn Against Using AI Solely for Financial Gain

by Fred Donovan

Several major radiologists’ societies recently called for development of ethical codes of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology, warning against the use of radiology...

Senator Sends Letter to TridentUSA on PACS Server Security Lapses

by Fred Donovan

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) sent a letter Sept. 23 to TridentUSA seeking information about the storage of medical images on unsecured picture archiving and communication system (PACS) servers by its...

AHIMA Warns About Privacy Risks in ONC Information Blocking Rule

by Fred Donovan

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) along with six other healthcare organizations are warning that the proposed the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...

Healthcare Blockchain Could Save Industry $100B Annually by 2025

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare blockchain could save the industry up to $100 billion per year in costs related to IT, operations, support functions, personnel, and health data breaches by 2025, estimated a report by BIS...

Windows Upgrade Led to Unsecured Health Data Transfers at VA Center

by Fred Donovan

An upgrade of a VA medical center’s operating system to Windows 7 led to the transfer of sensitive information using unsecured means for four years, an audit by the Department of Veterans...

VA Needs Healthcare IT Infrastructure to Utilize Health Data

by Fred Donovan

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) needs to build healthcare IT infrastructure that can utilize increasingly large amounts of health data on veterans, observed Gil Alterovitz, who was recently...

More Healthcare Organizations Plan to Adopt Cloud-First Approach

by Fred Donovan

A majority of healthcare organizations are ready to adopt a cloud-first approach for their health IT infrastructure, compared with only 23 percent of healthcare organizations last year, according to...

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