Jeremy Walsh is now heading up artificial intelligence and information technology in a newly created position at the FDA. He announced the move on LinkedIn. Walsh comes from the government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, where he worked for 14 years and was chief technologist, building out cloud networks and data analytics systems for the agencies the firm works with. This is the first time the FDA has appointed a chief AI officer. Former chief information officer Vid Desai managed IT for the agency.
Two independent medical practices in Minnesota once hoped to expand operations but have spent the past year struggling to recover from the cyberattack on a vast UnitedHealth Group payment system. Odom Health & Wellness, a sports medicine and rehabilitation outfit, and the Dillman Clinic & Lab, a family medicine practice, are among the thousands of medical offices that experienced sudden financial turmoil last year. The cyberattack against Change Healthcare, a division of United, paralyzed much of the nation's healthcare payment system for months.
GE HealthCare reported better-than-expected Q1 results on Wednesday, but the company slashed its annual forecast to account for the impact of President Donald Trump's far-reaching "reciprocal" tariff policy.
Ascension inadvertently disclosed information to a former business partner. Some of that information was determined to have been "likely stolen" due to a "vulnerability in third-party software" used by the former partner. Data involved in the breach included demographic information, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, race, gender and social security numbers.
Oracle engineers mistakenly triggered a five-day software outage at a number of Community Health Systems hospitals, causing the facilities to temporarily return to paper-based patient records.