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According to a revised breach notification, the provider sent out an additional 470,000 letters for a ransomware attack initially reported last year as affecting upwards of 8,000 individuals.
Responding to the Trump administration executive order that aims to supersede several state laws already setting safety guardrails, many vendors say that a unified approach is preferable to a "patchwork of conflicting policies."
Severance Hospital researchers have developed an AI platform that converts paramedic voice reports into clinical records, predicts patient deterioration, and recommends suitable transfer hospitals.
Its private operator says one of its modules, not the whole app, was compromised, based on an independent forensic analysis.
Industry voices discuss where AI will make the biggest impact in the healthcare workforce and which positions may be affected by automation.
At HIMSS26, Dr. Nathan Moore of the BJC Accountable Care Organization will show how health systems can move beyond chatbots toward safely deploying AI that takes action in complex workflows – pulling data, triaging patients and nudging clinicians.
At Annapolis Internal Medicine, patient satisfaction ratings jumped, labor capacity more than doubled without adding staff, and hold times dropped from four minutes to under one minute, all because of the agentic AI technology.
The extension allows providers to continue remotely prescribing Schedule II–V controlled substances under specific conditions to prevent a disruptive "telemedicine cliff."
Beth Meese, the health system's executive director of IT, digital health and enterprise EMR, offers a preview of her HIMSS26 session, which will offer an up-close perspective on how to make ambient tools work to "meaningfully reduce" clinician burden.
Big investments focused on AI infrastructure, cloud services and new PCs helped fuel a 14% increase this past year, according to the research firm – the fastest year of growth since the era of Windows 95 and the World Wide Web.