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 | 37
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
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