healthcare

We have previously documented China's social credit system, but a recent report from the National Public Credit Information Centre documents the effect it has had on Chinese citizens and businesses in 2018. The Chinese government has "discredited" 17.46 million people from purchasing plane...

On November 27, Atrium Health announced that one of their databases hosted by AccuDoc was breached by an "unauthorized third party" between September 22 and September 29, 2018. According to the release, basic information like names, date of birth, insurance info, and account balances were...

Google recently bought DeepMind, an artificial intelligence firm that developed the healthcare app Streams. According to the company's blog, they want to turn the app into an "AI-powered assistant for nurses and doctors everywhere - combining the best algorithms with intuitive design, all backed...

It seems that the HealthCare.gov hack that we reported on earlier this month is more concerning that initially thought. A letter is being mailed out to citizens who have been affected by the hack. Name, date of birth, address, sex, and the last four digits of the Social Security number (SSN)...

Toby Cosgrove is an advisor for the Google Cloud health care and life sciences team. He recently discussed his recommendations for the Google Cloud team to pursue that would help hospitals and health care providers to modernize. He sees killer application development such as transcribing...

Using AI as a diagnostic aid is nothing new. Some systems are already helping radiologists spot tumors, but systems like that stop short of actually recommending treatments. Now, researchers have made an "AI Clinician" that looks at a patient's symptoms and actually recommends sepsis treatments...

In a blog post today from Symantec, they announce that they have identified an attack group named "Orangeworm" has been deploying virus' against the healthcare sector and related industries. 40% of Orangeworms victims have been within the healthcare industry, but they aren't just going for PCs...

Microsoft tried and failed to compete in healthcare with General Electric as a partner. Microsoft has decided that it is once again bringing back it's prowess with artificial-intelligence and cloud services to the healthcare system. Rather than compete this time, Microsoft is ready to partner...