Andrea Fox

Boston

Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News

I'm a writer who also loves water, food, and green living.

Articles

Epic says providers are sharing widely through its TEFCA QHIN

6 days ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Epic Systems announced it has reached a significant milestone with a significant number of hospitals and clinics exchanging health data across its Qualified Health Information Network. WHY IT MATTERSBy reducing administrative burden, the United States' Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, established to fulfill health data exchange requirements in the 21st Century Cures Act, can help to ensure that any medical provider can participate in nationwide patient data exchange.
Vendor notebook: Developing enterprise AI agents with Google tools, and other news

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Google said at a healthcare artificial intelligence roundtable it hosted on Thursday that Agentspace is its fastest-growing artificial intelligence product. Launched earlier this year, the platform and its companion Vertex AI Model Garden allow enterprises to create agents that derive patient insights from multiple data sources.
Connected health needs more provider collaboration for better data integration

1 week ago | healsecurity.com | Andrea Fox

While healthcare systems generally find success with interoperability among medical devices and IT platforms, adoption of these technologies has been slower than expected, impeding improvements in patient outcomes, says Deloitte. Challenges reported by providers include demonstrating value to end users, integrating with existing workflows and budget constraints.
Connected health needs more provider collaboration for better data integration

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Health systems have generally found success with interoperability among medical devices, electronic health records and other IT platforms. Still, providers have been slower to adopt some of these technologies than expected, hindering wider successes with improving patient outcomes, according to new research from Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
Kettering Health says radiation oncology is back online after ransomware attack

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Ohio-based Kettering Health announced this past Friday that it had stepped up an emergency urgent clinical support line and temporary retail pharmacy contact numbers to ensure care continuity during a system-wide IT outage. The health system also said on social media over the weekend that patients are back in radiation treatment thanks to the commitment of its technical and clinical staff.
New Innovaccer platform seeks to scale AI adoption, speed transition to VBC

2 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Innovaccer on Thursday announced that its healthcare data interoperability platform, Gravity, is now available across the U.S. with general access expected over the next several months. The platform was created to help healthcare organizations make better use of their data and accelerate artificial intelligence-driven digital transformation, the company says.
New Innovaccer platform seeks to scale AI adoption, speed transition to VBC

2 weeks ago | healsecurity.com | Andrea Fox

Innovaccer has launched its healthcare data interoperability platform, Gravity, across the United States. The platform aims to help healthcare organizations make the most of their data and fast-track digital transformation. Gravity could increase the speed at which AI is deployed in healthcare organizations by unifying data from various sources into one place.
NVIDIA GPU marketplace bridges chip supply and AI demand

2 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

NVIDIA has launched a new marketplace to give artificial intelligence developers on various cloud providers – including Lambda, CoreWeave, Crusoe, Foxconn, Nscale others – access to a global supply of graphics processing units. WHY IT MATTERSNVIDIA said the unified AI platform, called DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace, offers fully managed services and software for training, deploying and optimizing AI.
Kettering Health faces a ransomware attack and confirms a scam targeting its patients

2 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Within hours of a cyber incident that disrupted some of its services, Ohio-based Kettering Health said fraudsters were calling its patients and requesting credit card payments for medical expenses. WHY IT MATTERSA network cyber attack limiting access to patient care systems across Kettering's 14 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient facilities caused a call center outage and cancelled elective surgeries, the health system explained in an online statement on Tuesday.
The government should invest now in healthcare cybersecurity, says HSCC

2 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Funding shortfalls and workforce shortage leave small, rural and resource-constrained healthcare providers especially vulnerable to ransomware attacks that disrupt care delivery. That's a reality that cannot be ignored, according to a new report, prepared for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, by the Health Sector Coordinating Council's Cybersecurity Working Group.