Electronic nudges delivered to health care clinicians based on a machine learning algorithm that predicts mortality risk quadrupled rates of conversations with patients about their end-of-life care preferences, according to the long-term results of a randomized clinical trial published by Penn Medicine investigators in JAMA Oncology today.
Pennsylvania-based medical device distributor Jet Medical Inc. will pay $200,000 to resolve criminal allegations relating to a migraine headache treatment. Jet and two related companies agreed to pay another $545,000 in a civil settlement involving the same device.
A global ransomware operator issued an apology and offered to unlock the data targeted in a ransomware attack on Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, a move cybersecurity experts say is rare, if not unprecedented, for the infamous group.
A medical practice in England intended to text its patients wishes for a "very merry Christmas." Instead, the mass text told patients they had "aggressive lung cancer" that had spread and asked them to fill out a form for terminal patients.