Yet another UK public sector data blab, this time info of pregnant women, cancer patients NHS Trust admits highly sensitive data left online for nearly three years Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 10
NTT Data to monitor ten million hotel guests and sell data about their sleep It'll be opt-in at a capsule hotel chain Personal Tech06 Dec 2023 | 14
Boehringer Ingelheim swaps lab coats for AI algorithms in search for new drugs Mixing IBM's foundation models and proprietary data to discover novel antibodies AI + ML01 Dec 2023 | 2
Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir Updated Groups claim Federated Data Platform requires new legislation to go ahead Databases01 Dec 2023 | 8
Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears Award follows £1 deal during pandemic and £60 million in non-competitive contracts Databases22 Nov 2023 | 34
Former infosec COO pleads guilty to attacking hospitals to drum up business Admits to taking phones used for 'code blue' emergencies offline and more Cyber-crime20 Nov 2023 | 13
UnitedHealthcare's broken AI denied seniors' medical claims, lawsuit alleges Post-acute care algorithm allegedly comes up short 90% of the time AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 37
Ransomware crooks SIM swap medical research biz exec, threaten to leak stolen data Advarra probes intrusion claims, says 'the matter is contained' Cyber-crime01 Nov 2023 | 6
Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle Mangled spreadsheets mean government was asleep on the job and should be held to account Personal Tech20 Oct 2023 | 39
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard Exclusive US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in quantum state of uncertainty Public Sector05 Oct 2023 | 96
Contract for England's controversial health data platform delayed NHS also launches £2M project to engage patients with data strategy Databases29 Sep 2023 | 14
MOVEit breach delivers bundle of 3.4 million baby records Progress Software vulnerability ID'd in enormous burglary at Ontario's BORN Cyber-crime26 Sep 2023 | 7
SAP user group calls for support deadline reprieve amid hospital billing worries Schedule is unrealistic... it takes 2 years just to tender, protests board member Databases06 Sep 2023 | 13
NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal Quango must show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement Databases29 Aug 2023 | 8
Bad software destroyed my doctor's memory Column Design this bad should sicken developers – but it's the rest of us who end up feeling queasy Software16 Aug 2023 | 136
Google, you're not unleashing 'unproven' AI medical bots on hospital patients, yeah? Senator won't be PaLMed off as web giant eyes up healthcare industry AI + ML08 Aug 2023 | 11
Cigna sued for using software to deny healthcare insurance claims It's just some if-then statements, no AI here, insurer sniffs Applications26 Jul 2023 | 31
Pangolin-inspired robot can roll around your guts administering treatments Flexing device works where surgeons find hard to reach Science22 Jun 2023 | 4
Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls Health acquisition freezes recruitment after $10 billion contract put on hold Databases16 Jun 2023 | 13
Lantum S3 bucket leak is prescription for chaos for thousands of UK doctors Updated Freelance agency exposed personal details that would be highly valuable in the wrong hands Cyber-crime12 Jun 2023 | 12
Healthcare org with over 100 clinics uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to write medical records The doctor, and their steno-bot, will see you now. Then see another patient quickly because they don't have to stop and scrawl notes AI + ML06 Jun 2023 | 38
Individual data platforms for all health providers under controversial NHS plans Procurement under threat of legal action imagines trusts will tailor systems for their own use cases PaaS + IaaS31 May 2023 | 11
The future of digital healthcare could be a two-metre USB cable Comment Try showing a remote clinician your injured foot without one Personal Tech30 May 2023 | 75
AI menaces superbug by identifying potent antibiotic Take that, Acinetobacter baumannii! You may hide on hospital doorknobs but you can't outrun binary brainboxes AI + ML26 May 2023 | 16
ChatGPT can't pass these medical exams – yet Maybe letting AI models loose on patients ain't a great idea, prof tells us AI + ML24 May 2023 | 33
Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder? Opinion Beware over promising benefits and underestimating complexity Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 138
NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month Updated Good day at the Office for Windows giant as nurses still fight for pay raises PaaS + IaaS18 May 2023 | 52
VA, Oracle's Cerner agree on renegotiated health records contract Long, costly wars not the only thing US government good at getting stuck in Databases17 May 2023 | 4
AI to detect heart attacks tested in the land of the deep-fried Mars bar Scotland's emergency rooms don't always have the resources to make good diagnoses under pressure AI + ML12 May 2023 | 24
VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans Messy system is forcing VA pharmacies to work overtime to deal with poor IT, committee told Databases11 May 2023 | 4
Study: AI can predict pancreatic cancer three years ahead of human doctors We chat to one of the Harvard Medical School researchers involved AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
Data loss costs are going up – and not just for those who choose to pay thieves Ransoms, investigations, and breach-related lawsuits are hitting companies in the wallet, law firm says Cyber-crime02 May 2023 | 6
What does an ex-Pharma Bro do next? If it's Shkreli, it's an AI Dr bot Martin, for it is him, tells El Reg: 'We've looked around for a real LLM-powered chatbot' AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 33
Is Neuralink ready for human brain implants? Allegedly so We're sure Elon will be first in line as a test subject Science27 Mar 2023 | 30
Hospital to test AI 'copilot' for doctors that jots notes on patient care The hope? Reducing piles of admin for clinicians freeing them up for medical work AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 25
UnitedHealth's buyout of UK's EMIS could reduce competition: UK watchdog NHS could also be hit with higher prices as a result of the merger, CMA argues in initial investigation Software20 Mar 2023 | 9
BianLian ransomware crew goes 100% extortion after free decryptor lands No good deed goes unpunished, or something like that Cyber-crime19 Mar 2023 | 7
Zoll Medical says intruders had 1M+ patient, staff records at their fingertips Names, addresses, SSNs all up for grabs Security13 Mar 2023 | 3
US House reps, staff health data swiped in cyber-heist Data for sale via dark web, Senate in line of fire, too Cyber-crime09 Mar 2023 | 8
UK consortium set to bid for £480 million NHS data platform Syndicate wants to see health service 'stay in control' in face of fierce competition from Palantir Databases28 Feb 2023 | 26
Now IBM Watson Health, sorry, Merative decimates staff And jobs shift offshore, says source Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 14
This won't hurt a bit: Amazon now a US healthcare provider Updated Closes takeover of One Medical, has your shopping habits and medical info Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 36
Tech job vacancies hamper England's digital health plans £1.1M ambition to recruit 10,000 pros 'inadequate' says committee Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 45
UK health department contracts 'critical friend' for £480m data platform As IT spending drops below promised billions, there's always room for those offering the right kind of feedback Offbeat10 Feb 2023 | 8
IBM health benefits blackout leaves retirees footing the bill Medical payments expected to resume ... soon? Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 37
UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm Databases06 Feb 2023 | 23
Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter Systems30 Jan 2023 | 38
Artificial pancreas successful in type 2 diabetes tests Cambridge researchers say 89 percent of study patients reported spending less time managing their condition Science18 Jan 2023 | 29
Patients wrongly told they've got cancer in SMS snafu We wish you a very merry chemo and a happy new year Personal Tech03 Jan 2023 | 57
This ransomware gang is a right Royal pain in the AES for healthcare orgs Nothing like your medical files being taken hostage for millions of dollars CSO09 Dec 2022 | 8
Neuralink's AI brain chip could be in humans within six months claims Elon Musk This is a Musk prediction, so don't get your hopes up Science02 Dec 2022 | 51
Google Health licenses its AI breast cancer screening tool to a medical biz iCAD will have five years to bring a product to market AI + ML29 Nov 2022 | 4
Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win' PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2022 | 57
Watchdog warns UK health data platform could damage patients' trust 'This store of confidential data is a national treasure that must never be compromised or treated carelessly' Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 30
UK's National Health Service will roll existing Palantir work into patient data platform Does spy-tech supplier have a head start in bidding for the controversial deal it considers a 'must win'? Databases21 Nov 2022 | 37
A next-gen AI protein folder that could help science? Meta's good for something Faster than the others, 600m structures now in a public DB AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 11
Japan to citizens: Get a digital ID or health insurance gets harder Risk of death is certainly one way to get the populace on board Security27 Oct 2022 | 11
Philips axes thousands amid financial loss Warns of class action lawsuits and personal injury claims in wake of health product recall Personal Tech25 Oct 2022 | 20
Alert: This ransomware preys on healthcare orgs via weak-ass VPN servers FBI, CISA warn of Daixin gang after OakBend Medical Center hit Cyber-crime24 Oct 2022 | 1
Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 41
IBM withholds healthcare subsidies from some retirees Former staff describe threat as a 'heist' and 'outright attack' on pension scheme Systems21 Oct 2022 | 38
Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit Science21 Oct 2022 | 18