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 | 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
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