Over the past few years, I’ve watched as the number of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations across America has continued to trend upwards - undermining patient care and exposing millions of medical records.
Since January alone: a cyber criminal copied the sensitive data of 5 million patients through IT vendor Episource; a hacker breached Connecticut Community Health Center’s systems accessing the medical records of 1 million patients; and a ransomware
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Osso VR Launches Osso Nurse Training Platform to Accelerate Nursing Onboarding with Virtual Reality
What You Should Know:
- Osso VR, a leader in immersive healthcare training, has announced early access to its new virtual reality (VR) nursing solution, Osso Nurse Training. The platform is designed to optimize how health systems onboard new graduate nurses, addressing a top concern for hospital executives: finding ways to onboard nurses faster without compromising patient care.
- Developed in collaboration with frontline educators, the solution combines the Osso VR Nursing Series
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M&A: Fortified Health Security Acquires Latitude to Scale HITRUST and Advisory Services
What You Should Know:
- Fortified Health Security (Fortified), a managed security services provider (MSSP) specializing in healthcare cybersecurity acquires Latitude Information Security.
- Latitude is a healthcare-focused cybersecurity advisory firm known for its expertise in HITRUST CSF, risk assessments, and third-party risk management.
Expanding End-to-End Capabilities
The strategic acquisition scales Fortified's ability to deliver essential healthcare advisory and
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Briya and Tanner Health Partner to Launch New Patient Data Network
What You Should Know:
- Briya, the health technology company redefining healthcare research, today announced a strategic partnership with Tanner Health, the premier provider of healthcare in west Georgia and east Alabama, on the creation of the Briya/Tanner Network, a new patient data network to support clinical innovation and healthcare research by providing secure access to high quality real-world data (RWD).
- The collaboration integrates Briya's secure data access platform with
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Mayo Clinic Launches Platform_Orchestrate to Accelerate Clinical Development
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic has announced the launch of Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate, a new program designed to accelerate clinical development and help biopharma and medical device companies bring innovative therapies to patients faster.
- The program achieves this by providing collaborators with a single point of access to Mayo Clinic's world-class research and clinical expertise, de-identified clinical data, and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
A Single
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How Voice-Driven AI is Rebuilding Trust Between Clinicians and Tech
While artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize patient care, a fundamental trust deficit between clinicians and technology threatens to undermine its potential. The solution may not lie in more sophisticated algorithms or faster processors, but in something far more intuitive: the human voice. Voice-driven AI is emerging as the bridge that could finally reconcile clinicians with healthcare technology, transforming both the practice of medicine and the patient experience
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Combating the New Face of Healthcare Phishing and Medical Identity Theft
In 2024 alone, more than 276 million patient records were compromised in cyber attacks targeting healthcare organizations, a figure that equates to 758,000 exposed records every single day. The scale of the problem is shocking, but what’s even more sobering is that 92 percent of healthcare organizations reported experiencing at least one cyberattack last year. These aren’t just numbers; they reflect a growing crisis in trust, safety, and operational integrity across the entire healthcare system.
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The AI Malpractice Paradox: Why Healthcare Organizations Bear Full Legal Responsibility for Patient Harm
Healthcare organizations are installing artificial intelligence tools across their operations — diagnostic algorithms, predictive models, patient monitoring systems — while avoiding a fundamental question: Who gets sued when these systems harm patients?
Healthcare organizations bear full legal responsibility for any patient harm caused by AI tools they choose to use. This is direct medical malpractice liability, whether the AI was built internally or bought from a vendor. Yet while executives
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Homecare Homebase Launches AI and Automation Tools to Transform Home-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a leader in software for home-based care launches three new automation and AI-driven tools.
- The solutions are designed to create crucial workflow efficiencies in areas of home-based care that have historically been manual and time-consuming. The new products are part of the HCHB Intelligence Suite and are accessible directly through the Homecare Homebase EHR, ensuring a seamless user experience.
Streamlining Workflows
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Ambience Healthcare Launches Inpatient ICD-10 CDI Assistant to Elevate Hospital Documentation
What You Should Know:
- Ambience Healthcare has announced the launch of the industry’s first Inpatient ICD-10 CDI Assistant.
- The new solution is designed to help hospitalists document precise, compliant diagnoses during the patient encounter, ensuring that clinical complexity is accurately captured and is audit-ready from the start.
Bridging the Gap Between Complexity and Compliance
Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) is the discipline of ensuring that the medical
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