Healthcare

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 | 35

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

Oops, web trackers may have leaked 3 million patients' info

Scream with us: Aaaaaa-AAH

CSO20 Oct 2022 | 35

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system

Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out

Databases14 Oct 2022 | 10

LockBit 3.0 malware forced NHS tech supplier to shut down hosted sites

Managed software provider Advanced admits some customer data 'exfiltrated' in August ransomware attack

Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 2

Hospital giant's IT still poorly a week after suspected ransomware infection

Updated Insiders tell of struggle to access patient info, meds without working computers

Security12 Oct 2022 | 12

UK hospitals fall back on pen and paper after Oracle Cerner outage

Staff couldn't access patient records and paper stocks were running low

Databases12 Oct 2022 | 11

Microsoft drops the C bomb on financial services – 'compliance'

Windows giant know exactly how to get these types fired up

Off-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 3

Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids

Wait, wait, hear us out

Science01 Oct 2022 | 33

Source: IBM disguised Watson Health layoffs as a 'redeployment initiative'

Exclusive Funnily enough, most of those hit were aged over 40, it is claimed

AI + ML29 Aug 2022 | 59

UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system

Plans afoot to replace Oracle EBS/AIX system used by 1.8 million staff dating from 2008

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2022 | 24

$2.8m gene therapy treatment is America's most expensive drug ever

Sure, it's pricey, but not using it would be more expensive, says drug maker

Science18 Aug 2022 | 57