HHS says a recent Ascension Healthcare breach affected 437,329 patients. Ascension did not disclose the number of patients affected when it first reported the April 28 breach a couple of weeks ago. While it's a much smaller number than the 5.6 million people affected by the May 2024 breach involving ransomware group Black Basta, security pros still considered it a significant incident.
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Mass General Brigham researchers are using artificial intelligence to scan a photo of a person's face and estimate their age based not on a birthday, but on how well that person is aging. They believe the technology could assist doctors in determining treatment options for cancer and other chronic diseases, or improve a doctor's estimate of how long a patient might live.
The FDA is rolling out an aggressive plan to make generative AI a linchpin in its decision-making, part of a bid to get faster and leaner in evaluating drugs, foods, medical devices and diagnostic tests. The plan raises urgent questions about what's being done to secure the vast amount of proprietary company data that's part of the process and whether sufficient guardrails are in place.
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.