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This AI understands doctor’s notes: Truveta’s new model finds meaning in messy healthcare data

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Truveta Photos) Healthcare data holds great potential to improve medicine, but mining it is not easy. Truveta’s model is designed to extract patient diagnoses, medications, lab results and other data from sources like physician’s notes and insurance claims — messy, unstructured text filled with abbreviations, jargon and misspellings.

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The High-Stakes Game of Ensuring IoMT Device Security

SecureWorld News

Being constantly connected to the internet, they are either protected by basic passwords or, in some cases, have no password protection at all. A 2021 Cynerio report revealed a staggering 123% increase in ransomware attacks on healthcare facilities, resulting in more than 500 incidents and costs exceeding $21 billion.

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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

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We’re seeing a glimmer of the future – the Internet of Things (IoT) – where anything and everything is or contains a sensor that can communicate over the network/Internet. If we wait, we’ll be playing catch-up, just like we are in Internet security – but at a much larger scale. By George Romas.

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Health Orgs Are Target of Daixin Team Ransomware

SecureWorld News

The biggest target is the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector, according to the advisory. "As As of October 2022, per FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) data, specifically victim reports across all 16 critical infrastructure sectors, the HPH Sector accounts for 25 percent of ransomware complaints.".

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Researchers Find 45 Million Unsecured X-rays and CT Scans

SecureWorld News

The investigation looked into Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM), which are standards for communicating medical data between healthcare professionals. The result was approximately 3,092 real DICOM devices were found to be communicating over the internet. They scanned roughly 4.3

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Hackers Find New Life from ‘End of Life‘ Technologies

SecureWorld News

As the FBI puts it: "As of May 2019, an open source report indicated 71 percent of Windows devices used in healthcare organizations ran an operating system that became unsupported in January 2020. Increased compromises have been observed in the healthcare industry when an operating system has achieved end of life status.".

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December Tech Trends Report and 2016 Enterprise Tech Projections

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Internet of Things : Today's Internet connects people, governments, academia and business. The already emerging Internet of Things goes far beyond that. Use cases are expected to include enhancements to education, training, safety, security, healthcare, transportation and optimized manufacturing.

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