Connected Medical Devices —the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks
The following is a guest article by Ryan Witt, Healthcare Cybersecurity Leader at Proofpoint
The Internet of Medical Things, or IoMT, is a deep web of interconnected devices that increasingly plays a vital role in care delivery. Unfortunately, these devices have also significantly enhanced healthcare’s cyber risk, and security researchers have raised alarms about the vulnerabilities of these devices for more than a decade. While we haven’t seen threat actors widely exploiting the vulnerabilities in the wild, it is only a matter of time—and the results of an event like an IoMT ransomware attack will be devastating to ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Consolidated Appropriations Act Cyber Risk Cybersecurity ECRI FDA Internet of Medical Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Sr. Infrastructure Engineer
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Sr. Infrastructure Engineer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in either the Albany, New York or Manhattan, New York office.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Engineering Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Sr. Infrastructure Engineer Source Type: blogs
Is it really depressing? Really living with chronic pain
Someone responded to my post Unpalatable truths about pain saying it was depressing. For a moment I thought – yeah, it is really. And then I reflected on my life living with, and working with people dealing daily with chronic, ongoing, persistent pain. It’s not inevitably miserable. Is there something wrong with me?
This, of course, set me to thinking maybe my pain isn’t as intense as others. Well – how would I know? I can’t give my pain a number out of 10. It’s just there and I can’t remember a time without any pain, so I can’t compare a 0 = no pain at all with anything ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 18, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Pain conditions Psychology Research Resilience/Health Science in practice Wellness pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
The Tension in TEFCA
The following is a guest article by Don Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth
Patients want the same modern computing experience in healthcare that they enjoy the rest of their lives to extend to our health and medical care. They want a modern consumer experience with ease of access, speed, availability, accuracy, and affordability. US healthcare is notorious for whiffing on the consumer experience, and it looks like we are about to miss another big opportunity to get things right if the current TEFCA plans stay mired in 90s tech.
The public comment period for the current TEFCA proposal closes on June 20th, and I...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Regulations 1upHealth 21st Century Cures Act APIs CMS DNS Don Rucker FHIR JSON ONC QHIN Source Type: blogs
Analysis Of Over 10,000 Healthcare AI Patents Highlights Future Trends: Our New Study
We are thrilled to announce the recent publication of our new study, Forecasting Artificial Intelligence Trends in Health Care: Systematic International Patent Analysis in the Journal of Medical Internet Research AI (JMIR AI). Our study takes an interesting deep dive into healthcare AI patents from the last decade, analysing over 10,000 of them from 2012 to 2022. Through this exploration, we shed light on the growth trends, the direction AI innovation is heading in different medical specialties, and the potential future implications of AI and Machine Learning (ML) in healthcare.
Our journey into the world of healthcare ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI patents digital health patent analysis future Innovation machine learning AI in healthcare AI in medicine Source Type: blogs
ChatGPT Alternatives For Healthcare And Research
ChatGPT has made a name for itself in the world of AI, along with Bard and MedPaLM. Following the success of these first-generation language models, a host of alternatives, including the open-source project Spark NLP for Healthcare, have emerged. Our exploration today focuses on alternative solutions that, while underpinned by the principles of ChatGPT, have potential utility in the healthcare and research sectors.
ChatGPT is remarkable, but it does have its drawbacks: a knowledge cut-off in November 2021, unilateral control and updates by OpenAI, an iOS-exclusive mobile app, and API-only integration, which can be quite...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine digital health large language models GPT in healthcare ChatGPT in healthcare AI Source Type: blogs
Taking part in a study
I have tried over recent years to become a more regular blood donor. So, I signed up for a study of the experience. Would naming it here cause any sort of bias? Don ' t know, but in case, I won ' t name it. It does have a record in ISRCTN, which you can look for. One of the investigators was the lead in another study, which I also won ' t name, but I was invited to join it. It has a record in ISRCTN, which you can look for, and in which I can see that I am in Phase 3. Phase 2 was to test the feasibility of the study design. This second stu...
Source: Browsing - June 12, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: clinical trials research Source Type: blogs
HealthWorks for Northern Virginia Gained More Control After Moving to eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR
Troubleshooting EHR and system issues at HealthWorks of Northern Virginia used to involve up to five different vendors. It was a nightmare. By moving to eClinlcalWorks’ cloud-EHR, they eliminated many of their system issues and now only have one vendor to deal with. Contrary to the prevailing belief, HealthWorks’ gained MORE control of their environment by moving to the cloud.
Healthcare IT Today had the chance to sit down with Jesse Burke, Director of IT at HealthWorks for Northern Virginia to have a conversation about their migration to the cloud. During our conversation we busted a few myths about moving to the clou...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Cloud EHR eClinicalWorks eCW EHR Cloud EHR Migration FQHC FQHCs Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Scene Featured HealthWorks for Northern Virginia Jesse Burke Source Type: blogs
Surprisingly, the World Is Becoming More Equal
Chelsea FollettReading the news or listening to politicians and pundits speak, one could easily get the impression that global inequality is getting worse. But is the widely held belief that the world is becoming less equal true, or is it mistaken? The overwhelming majority of long ‐term trends regarding living standards—ranging from rising life expectancy to declining rates of poverty and hunger—show considerable improvement, even accounting for recent pandemic‐related setbacks. You can explore the evidence for yourself on websites such asHuman Progress.org. Have those improvements been widely shared, ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chelsea Follett Source Type: blogs
Study: Self-guided internet-delivered treatment can significantly reduce ADHD symptoms among adults
Although ADHD was originally considered to be a disorder of childhood, it has been clear for years that it also impacts adults. At least 60% of children diagnosed with ADHD struggle with symptoms into adulthood and the estimated prevalence of ADHD in adults is between 4 and 5%.
As with children and teens, medication treatment is extensively used to treat ADHD in adults. Although medication is a core treatment for adult ADHD, and helps many individuals, many continue to experience impairment and some experience adverse effects that preclude ongoing medication treatment.
Although psychological treatments for adult ADHD — e...
Source: SharpBrains - June 7, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. David Rabiner Tags: Attention & ADD/ADHD Brain/ Mental Health ADHD-Treatment adult-AD/HD awareness training emotion regulation goal-setting inhibition training internet-delivered medication-treatment MyADHD planning psychoeducation psychological p Source Type: blogs
Dr. Deb is a Best Mind Blog of 2023
Photo: Feedspot LogoMy little ol ' blog has been noted as one a the top Best Mind Blogs of 2023 from media giant Feedspot, the Internet ' s Largest Curated Database of Bloggers and Podcasts.Studies show thatblogging offers enormous social, emotional and cognitive benefits, and individuals who read, follow and participate with mental health bloggers can experience a sense of belonging, help reframe their mental health priorities and learn ways to bring greater meaning into their life. Take a look at the other great bloggers you should follow for mental health from around the world. (Source: Dr. Deborah Serani)
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - June 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: mental health mind well-being Source Type: blogs
Technical Difficulties
My old ' puter was pretty much shitting the bed so I had to replace it. This required transferring its contents to the new machine, which ended up taking pretty much all day -- well, 3 1/2 hours plus commuting time with a tech support guy -- and then the rest of the afternoon restoring my logins, downloading cloud applications, and figuring out the new OS and whatnot. That got me thinking about the hassles connected with all the technology that ' s supposed to save us time and effort and amplify our powers. Somebody -- one of those radical environmentalist types like Murray Bookchin or E.F. Schumacher -- oh wait...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Krugman Misses the Mark on CBDCs —Again
Norbert Michel andNicholas AnthonyThis AprilForbes column describes why central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a fundamental issue related to Americans’ freedom and much bigger than just politics. It argues that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, famous forbeing wrong aboutthe Internet, was wrong for claiming presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis was merely playing politics with CBDCs.Nonetheless, Krugman hasdoubled down. AsCrowdfund Insider explains, now he ’s taken toTwitter to re ‐promote his original opinion pieceand to liken DeSantis ’s warnings about CBDCs to former presidential candidate Rick Santo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Norbert Michel, Nicholas Anthony Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Difficult to Maintain, How a Security Operations Center Can Help
Conclusion
Healthcare has topped the list of most breached industries for the past 12 years — a dubious distinction. While hospitals and health systems are taking cybersecurity more seriously, the type of breaches and their severity continue to increase, as evidenced by the large rise in hacking incidents.
An in-house or outsourced security operations center can help level the playing field for hospitals through a total environment approach designed to detect and remediate threats before they cause hospital systems to crash and patient care to be impacted. (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Cybersecurity Dark Web Monitoring DNS Domain Name System Event 4104 Extended Detectio Source Type: blogs
ChatGPT Misses the Mark in Healthcare – What It Needs to Succeed
The following is a guest article by Michael Blum, MD, Cardiologist, Co-founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI and Former Chief Medical Information Officer at UCSF Medical Center
The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 (GPT3) Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot sparked an unprecedented societal appreciation for the power of AI. While AI has been broadly deployed across industries for a decade, it remained mostly hidden from the typical user. The release of GPT3 in late 2022 changed all of that.
Suddenly, a user with minimal computer literacy and no programming or data science training whatsoever could ask an AI-based applicati...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy AI Hallucination BeeKeeperAI Chatbots ChatGPT ChatGPT4 Cyber Risks Generative AI Source Type: blogs
