DAX Copilot, Palantir and the UK’s FDP, billing for asynchronous consults, Epic Showroom, COVID-19 testing platform leak, gen AI ‘impossible’ without copyrighted material, drop in digital health funding in 2023, Apple Watch back on sale, Denmark’s health tech industry
Vanderbilt piloting Nuance DAX Copilot, testing other genAI use cases
Healthcare IT News ~ Mike Miliard ~ 08/01/2024
VUMC says it has enlisted 10 physicians to use and assess Nuance’s DAX Copilot system, which can help automate the creation of clinical notes and reduce the administrative burden of charting in the electronic health record.
NHSE to investigate Palantir for possible breach of FDP contract
Digital Health News ~ Andrea Chipman ~ 08/01/2024
NHS England (NHSE) will investigate whether US data analytics giant Palantir violated the terms of its contract to run the Federated Data Platform (FDP) by launching a covert influencer campaign targeting legal transparency non-profit Good Law Project.
More health systems are billing for electronic patient-provider messages, study shows
FierceHealthcare ~ Dave Muoio ~ 11/01/2024
Charges for electronic, asynchronous clinician-patient messaging — or e-visits — have persisted in the wake of an early-2020 spike during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why Denmark is a hotbed for healthtech startups and innovation
Tech.eu ~ Cate Lawrence ~ 16/01/2024
According to data platform Dealroom, in 2023, Danish healthtech startups raised a staggering $835 million in 2023, marking an 11 percent increase from the previous record in 2021.
Epic launches new ‘Showroom’ website for 3rd-party apps, services
FierceHealthcare ~ Heather Landi ~ 18/01/2024
As part of an initiative teased last summer, Epic officially launched this week new third-party vendor programs to connect health tech companies with health systems and providers.
Leaked COVID tests expose sensitive patient data
Cybernews ~ Vilius Petkauskaus ~ 16/01/2023
The COVID-19 testing platform, Coronalab.eu, has exposed a database containing 11.8 million patient records, including COVID-19 certificates, test records, passport numbers, and other sensitive details.
Cloud vendor returns stolen hospital data
Healthcare Info Security ~ Marianne Kolbasuk McGee ~ 15/01/2024
A cloud services firm has turned over to a New York hospital alliance the patient data stolen in an August ransomware attack by the notorious LockBit gang.
OpenAI: gen AI ‘impossible’ without copyrighted material
Healthcare Info Security ~ Akshaya Asokan ~ 09/01/2024
ChatGPT maker OpenAI acknowledged that it would be “impossible” to develop generative artificial intelligence systems without using copyrighted material.
JPM24: Digital health funding hit $10.7B in 2023, the lowest in four years
FierceHealthcare ~ Heather Landi ~ 08/01/2024
As many investors predicted, digital health funding took a dive in 2023 with startups bringing in $10.7 billion across 492 deals, representing the lowest amount of capital invested in the digital health sector since 2019.
Apple Watch back on sale after dramatic ban paused
Canadian Healthcare Technology ~ Staff writer ~ 03/01/2024
The ban had been the result of a dispute with Masimo, a health technology company that claimed Apple had infringed its patents related to pulse oximetry sensors, which measure the amount of oxygen in the blood.
