Healthcare

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 | 58

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

AI laser probe for prostate cancer enters clinical trials

FDA says yes to the tests

AI + ML13 Aug 2022 | 21

Harvard boffins build multimodal AI system to predict 14 types of cancer

Many sources become one

AI + ML09 Aug 2022 | 2

Martin Shkreli, out of prison for running a Ponzi scheme, now pushes Web3 thing

His latest project, Druglike, most definitely isn't in the pharmaceutical business, from which he's been banned

Bootnotes26 Jul 2022 | 34

About that $1b... IBM says Watson Health assets fetched $230m in pre-tax profits

Unit was supposed to transform oncology yet never turned a profit, ended up in hands of private equity

AI + ML26 Jul 2022 | 15

Hospital IT melts in heatwave, leaving doctors without patient records

Clinical systems 10 years old, new software due to go live next year

On-Prem22 Jul 2022 | 21

Amazon buys US healthcare chain One Medical for $3.9bn

It now owns your store, your doctor, and your shopping history. What's next?

Personal Tech21 Jul 2022 | 28

UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform

Patients must have the right to decide what information is taken from health records, say privacy campaigners

Databases20 Jul 2022 | 130

EU court says it can probe M&As even when one party has no European operations

Bloc insists it has right to rule on planned merger between US biotech firms Illumina and Grail

Legal14 Jul 2022 | 15

FDA clears way for an AI stethoscope to detect heart disease

Algorithm proves better than primary care doctors at recognizing signs of heart trouble

AI + ML14 Jul 2022 | 15

COO of failed bio-biz Theranos found guilty on all twelve fraud counts

What a prick ... of blood was ever going to work in these machines?

Science07 Jul 2022 | 30

Wash your mouth out with shape-shifting metal

You wanted flying cars and robo-butlers. Instead, we're getting tooth-cleaning morphing nanoparticle bots

Science06 Jul 2022 | 38

Health trusts swapped patient data for shares in an AI firm. They may have lost millions

Deals leave NHS bodies out of pocket after collapse in value of UK health tech company

AI + ML06 Jul 2022 | 35

UK govt promises to sink billions into electronic health records for England

NHS App role expanded following perceived COVID-era success

PaaS + IaaS30 Jun 2022 | 62

There are 24.6 billion pairs of credentials for sale on dark web

In brief Plus: Citrix ASM has some really bad bugs, and more

Security20 Jun 2022 | 3

Oracle plans US database for electronic health records

Based in the Big Red cloud, the system will suck up records from hospitals and physicians, says CTO Larry Ellison

Databases10 Jun 2022 | 18

IBM CEO explains why he offloaded Watson Health: Not enough domain expertise

And not enough customers, Shirley?

AI + ML08 Jun 2022 | 14

Healthcare organizations face rising ransomware attacks – and are paying up

Via their insurance companies, natch

Research03 Jun 2022 | 10

Nuance helps launch healthcare AI industry group

Microsoft embraces Nuance to deepen its healthcare connections

AI + ML12 May 2022 |

Can AI transformer models help design drugs and treat incurable diseases?

Special report From protein prediction to drug generation, neural networks are revolutionizing medication

AI + ML09 May 2022 | 8

Watchdog rubber-stamps cavity-detecting neural network for dentists

Ain't that the tooth?

AI + ML05 May 2022 | 7

Critical bug allows attacker to remotely control medical robot

CVSS 9.8 flaws are not what you want in a hospital robot

Patches12 Apr 2022 | 12

How Pfizer used AI and supercomputers to design COVID-19 vaccine, tablet

GTC Everything from molecular structure to freezer distribution involved ML, says tech chief

AI + ML22 Mar 2022 | 8

Outsourcing firm Serco wins £212m UK Test and Trace deal

Updated Nice work if you can get it – it bagged £322m deal for Test and Trace last year

On-Prem22 Mar 2022 | 9

Hear us out: Smartphone lidar can test blood, milk

Using tiny samples, too, a claim we're sure you haven't heard before

Science18 Mar 2022 | 34

SambaNova, DeLorean AI tech offers kidney treatment guidance to doctors

When this baby hits 88 GHz, you're going to see some serious stuff

AI + ML17 Mar 2022 |

Oracle sees automation opportunity in healthcare following pandemic

Doctor Ellison says big wins in the sector influenced decision to buy health records outfit Cerner

Databases11 Mar 2022 | 5

Risk-based algorithm could improve cancer screenings

This time the intelligence is not artificial

Science09 Mar 2022 | 9

NHS Digital's demise bad for 55 million patients' privacy – ex-chairman

IT and data arm now part of NHS England, which could be pressured into data sharing without proper oversight

Security04 Mar 2022 | 41

Fujitsu claims world leadership in headache management

For actual headaches, not tech messes, but hasn't said why its staff have a problem that needed tackling

Science04 Mar 2022 | 14

Study: AI detects backdoor-unlocking DNA samples

The 4D chess equivalent of a supply-chain attack

AI + ML25 Feb 2022 | 13

AI-designed drug to treat deadly disease now tested on humans

Software may find solution to terminal idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

AI + ML24 Feb 2022 | 5

Western Australia Health taps SAP and Deloitte for AU$220m SaaS HR system over 10 years

Now, don't do a Queensland

Databases04 Feb 2022 | 9

AI tool finds hundreds of genes related to human motor neuron disease

Breakthrough could lead to development of drugs to target illness

AI + ML19 Jan 2022 | 1

Microsoft sends HoloLens 2 into a care home... Nope, not a headline gag about retiring the tech. They actually did this

Hands-free kit a 'game changer' for doctors assessing residents during pandemic

Bootnotes19 Jan 2022 | 4

Heart attack victim 'saved' by defibrillator delivery drone*

* And a passerby who happened to be a doctor

Bootnotes06 Jan 2022 | 64