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31 Oct 2024
Post Office scandal affected relationships of two-thirds of victims
The Post Office scandal, regarded as the UK’s widest miscarriage of justice, destroyed the financial wellbeing of former subpostmasters, took away their liberty and inflicted grief on their relationships
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31 Oct 2024
China-based APTs waged 5-year campaign on Sophos firewalls
For years, several advanced persistent threat groups tied to the Chinese government targeted Sophos firewall products with custom malware and zero-day exploits.
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31 Oct 2024
DWP appoints Helen Wylie as its new chief digital and information officer
Wylie steps up from chief technology officer to replace her departing boss, Rich Corbridge, to take over one of the largest IT estates in Europe
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09 Nov 2023
What Non-Medical Supplemental Benefits Will MA Plans Offer in 2024?
Food and produce, transportation, and social needs services top the list of non-medical supplemental benefits from Medicare Advantage plans in 2024.
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09 Nov 2023
Sage Therapeutics Announces Wholesale Cost of Zuranolone, $15,900
In a recent press release, the company noted that the wholesale acquisition cost for a 14-day treatment cycle will be $15,900.
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09 Nov 2023
Conflict of interest concerns raised over CMA's use of AWS UK public sector discount scheme
Less than a month after the CMA confirmed it would be investigating the competitive impact of AWS preferential pricing deals on the UK cloud market, data reveals the CMA is benefiting from cut-price Amazon cloud services
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09 Nov 2023
Revenue Cycle Sets Sights on Autonomous Coding, Claims Automation
Revenue cycle automation plans include autonomous coding and claims management tech, but cost and resource management are major barriers to adoption, KLAS reports.
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08 Nov 2023
DDN Infinia expands storage around HPC, AI
DDN has created a new software-defined object storage product, Infinia, for AI and HPC secondary storage. The tech can also be applied to some enterprise storage use cases.
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08 Nov 2023
FBI: Ransomware actors hacking casinos via third parties
A new Private Industry Notification focuses on ransomware trends involving attacks against casinos as well as a callback phishing campaign perpetrated by the Luna Moth gang.
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08 Nov 2023
OpenAI's new versions of GPT target more enterprises
The vendor targets enterprises with new tools and products tailored to what businesses and developers need to incorporate generative AI, including better pricing.
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08 Nov 2023
Atlassian Confluence vulnerability under widespread attack
Atlassian's Confluence Data Center and Server products are under attack again as reports of widespread exploitation roll in just days after CVE-2023-22518 was publicly disclosed.
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08 Nov 2023
Zendesk unveils tools for agents to improve customer service
The customer service and CRM vendor unveiled no-code tools, including a layout builder to let teams customize agent interfaces for specific roles and workflows.
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08 Nov 2023
Former Post Office manager has no memory of preparing witness statement in legal dispute
Evidence of computer problems was omitted from the witness statement of a former Post Office manager in a legal battle with a subpostmaster blamed for unexplained accounting shortfalls
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08 Nov 2023
Competition the main concern for MSPs
Annual Datto survey indicates fears expressed in 2022 have continued to rise this year, along with a desire for vendor consolidation
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08 Nov 2023
Intel exec affixes OpenSSF, CNCF open source security efforts
Intel's Arun Gupta, now governing board chair of both the CNCF and OpenSSF, discusses his plans to bring all three organizations together to improve open source security.
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08 Nov 2023
Data-sharing management gap highlights cyber risk, says report
Organisations are struggling to secure their use of communications tools to share data with third-party partners and suppliers, and in the process are exposing themselves to heightened levels of risk, according to a report
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08 Nov 2023
Monte Carlo unveils data observability for vector databases
The vendor's new integration with vector database specialist Pinecone is designed to enable users to ensure quality of the data they use to train generative AI models.
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08 Nov 2023
AI Summit not the place for human rights, says French finance minister
Despite commitments at the UK’s AI Safety Summit to respect and protect human rights, the French finance minister said it was not the right forum to discuss signatories' human rights records
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08 Nov 2023
Need Outpaces Maternal Mental Healthcare Access in 150 Counties
70% of US counties have poor maternal mental healthcare access, even though nearly 700 are considered high risk for maternal mental health disorders.
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08 Nov 2023
Iconic Singapore hotel caught up in major data breach
The Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore uncovered a data breach of its guest loyalty programme last month
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08 Nov 2023
NTT Data strengthens SAP channel position with Sapphire
Tie-up will provide greater coverage of the mid-market customer base and provide more geographical reach
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08 Nov 2023
An Overview of 2024 Coverage for Veterans Beyond Veterans Affairs
Better outreach, multiple coverage sources in addition to Veterans Affairs benefits, and Medicaid expansion may be key to lowering uninsurance among veterans.
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08 Nov 2023
November 2023 Elections Mark 3 Big Wins for Abortion Rights
Votes in Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia may help bolster abortion rights in those states.
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08 Nov 2023
Oxa and eVersum join self-driving shuttle roll-out at Belfast Harbour
Self-driving vehicle software developer teams with electric commercial vehicle specialist to deliver self-driving shuttles in Northern Ireland’s leading port as part of Harlander Project, the area’s sustainable transport plan
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08 Nov 2023
SAP touts Business Technology Platform as foundation for S/4Hana migrations
SAP claims its Business Technology Platform can help customers ease their transition to S/4Hana and lay the foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives
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08 Nov 2023
King’s Speech misses the mark on cyber law reform, says campaign
A group of activists who want to reform the UK’s computer misuse laws to protect bona fide cyber pros from prosecution have been left disappointed by a lack of legislative progress
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08 Nov 2023
5G phones drive almost $1bn returned to customers in Q3
Global business services company’s quarterly assessment of mobile trade-in arena shows that iPhone 11 still dominates as the top traded device but that for the first time more than half of the top five traded models were 5G capable devices.
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08 Nov 2023
The Security Interviews: ISC2’s Clar Rosso on cyber diversity and policy
Computer Weekly catches up with ISC2 CEO Clar Rosso to talk about diversifying the cyber workforce and supporting cyber pros as they keep up with growing compliance and security policy demands
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08 Nov 2023
KLAS: Dimensional Insight, Epic Drive Health Data Analytics Outcomes
Healthcare organizations reported that Dimensional Insight, Epic, and Innovaccer offer the strongest analytics capabilities to track and benchmark desired outcomes.
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08 Nov 2023
HHS Honors Community Health Centers for Clinical Quality Improvement
The awards go to the top 10 percent of community health centers demonstrating achievements in clinical quality.
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08 Nov 2023
More Provider Orgs Have Value-Based Contracts With Private Payers
The share of provider organizations with commercial value-based contracts grew from 50 percent in 2018 to 76 percent in 2022.
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07 Nov 2023
Microsoft, ZDI disagree over Exchange zero-day flaws
Microsoft said it had previously fixed one of the flaws and that the others did not require a patch. Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, however, disagreed with the software giant.
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07 Nov 2023
Post Office disclosure failures delay Horizon scandal inquiry again
Many of the 300,000 emails unearthed could be relevant to evidence from future and past witnesses in the Post Office scandal inquiry
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07 Nov 2023
LSE Behavioural Lab highlights critical role of technology in boosting collaboration
Study at behavioural lab of leading UK education establishment finds quality of collaboration outcomes are proportional to quality of meeting technology used by both office-based and remote/hybrid workers
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07 Nov 2023
Gartner Symposium: More about AI
The keynote presentation on the second day of the Barcelona conference examined whether artificial intelligence should be more intelligent than humans
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07 Nov 2023
Behind the scenes, Spotify's Backstage a work in progress
Spotify-created Backstage, now a CNCF project, is popular as enterprises add developer portals to internal platforms, but setup is hard, and getting dev buy-in can be even harder.
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07 Nov 2023
Researchers ‘break’ rule designed to guard against Barracuda vulnerability
Vectra AI researchers found that a Suricata rule designed to detect exploitation of a dangerous Barracuda Email Security Gateway flaw was not entirely effective
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07 Nov 2023
CloudCoCo on track for FY growth
A focus on security and mutlicloud has paid off at the channel player as it continues to look for future revenue improvements
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07 Nov 2023
VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona
VMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes
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07 Nov 2023
LigaT selects Nokia to power IP core, transport network across Portugal
Deal provides LigaT a 400GE-capable network architecture with capacity, flexibility and reduced power consumption to deliver the best possible experience to its customers in Portugal
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07 Nov 2023
Exclusive Networks shares positive Q3 numbers
Distributor’s results add to a picture of channel resilience in the face of challenging macroeconomic conditions
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07 Nov 2023
Cornwall Council-run care service to deploy digital care hub
Digital hub will offer council-run Corserv Care an end-to-end care solution, including a physical device, online dashboard and interoperable software
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07 Nov 2023
Interview: Paul Scully, minister for technology and the digital economy, DSIT
The technology minister speaks to Computer Weekly about the government’s semiconductor strategy, how to solve the digital skills challenge in the UK and moving towards the country’s net-zero target
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07 Nov 2023
Unesco unveils seven-point anti-disinformation plan
United Nations body outlines seven proposals for civil society, governments, regulators and tech platforms to adopt to combat the source of disinformation
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07 Nov 2023
CMS Proposals Address Anti-Competitive Practices in Medicare Advantage
The proposed rule includes a fixed compensation of $632 for agents and brokers helping Medicare Advantage beneficiaries choose a plan.
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07 Nov 2023
Senators Launch Bipartisan Healthcare Cybersecurity Working Group
Spearheaded by Senators Mark Warner, Bill Cassidy, and others, the working group aims to propose legislative solutions to ongoing healthcare cybersecurity challenges.
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07 Nov 2023
27% of Adults Face At Least One Healthcare Affordability Challenge
Many US adults face severe healthcare affordability issues, such as high out-of-pocket costs, medical debt, or forgone care, but even more have healthcare financial strain.
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07 Nov 2023
AI Safety Summit review
Computer Weekly takes stock of the UK government’s AI Safety Summit and the differing perspectives around its success
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07 Nov 2023
Generative AI May Facilitate Improved Chest X-Ray Interpretation
Northwestern Medicine researchers have developed a generative AI model that can outperform radiologists at interpreting chest X-rays in some cases.
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07 Nov 2023
ACO Enrollment Doesn’t Help Mental Healthcare Access, PROs
Mental healthcare access and treatment was down by 24% and no change was detected for PROs after ACO enrollment.
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07 Nov 2023
Studies on Prescription Digital Therapeutics Lack Rigor, Inclusivity
New research shows that the clinical evidence supporting prescription digital therapeutics often does not include critical information, including race and ethnicity.
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06 Nov 2023
Ransomware continues to rise in October across all sectors
Ransomware disclosures and reports surged last month, leading in some cases to bankruptcy filing, prolonged business disruptions and ambulance diversions for hospitals.
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06 Nov 2023
Channel roundup: Who’s gone where?
The start of a fresh month has seen the personnel moves continue to pile up
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06 Nov 2023
Gartner Symposium: It’s all about AI
CEOs want CIOs to take the lead when it comes to AI business initiatives. IT leaders need a clear plan of what they want to do with AI
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06 Nov 2023
NatWest taps IBM skills for generative AI
NatWest and IBM are developing generative AI capabilities to expand the capabilities of the bank’s virtual customer assistant
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06 Nov 2023
AI Tools May Detect Heart Valve Disease, Predict Cardiovascular Risk
Two studies to be presented at the AHA’s Scientific Sessions show that AI and deep learning may be capable of flagging heart disease and cardiovascular event risk.
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06 Nov 2023
Bipartisan Bill Aims to Expand OUD Medication Access via Telehealth
The reintroduced TREATS Act would permanently allow clinicians to prescribe buprenorphine for OUD treatment through telehealth without a prior in-person exam.
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06 Nov 2023
Netherlands starts building its own AI language model
Dutch government allocates €13.5m to develop an open artificial intelligence language model according to national values and guidelines.
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06 Nov 2023
Labor Expenses Hurt Hospital Financial Performance
Hospital financial performance declined slightly in September as providers deal with workforce issues, including rising labor expenses.
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06 Nov 2023
As Patient Safety Improves, Patient Experience Scores Go Down
The Leapfrog Group fall 2023 Hospital Safety Grades reflect a post-pandemic improvement in patient safety measures, particularly healthcare-acquired infections.
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06 Nov 2023
Psychiatrists Prescribe or Recommend Ozempic, Other Weight Loss Drugs
Responses from 13 mental health departments at significant health systems suggest that nearly half of psychiatrists are prescribing or recommending Ozempic.
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06 Nov 2023
Shadow IT use at Okta behind series of damaging breaches
Okta now believes the initial access vector in a series of damaging breaches was one of its own employees who used a corporate device to sign into their personal Google account
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06 Nov 2023
How Trellix’s CISO keeps threat actors at bay
Trellix’s chief information security officer, Harold Rivas, outlines how the company mitigates security threats through containment and by helping security analysts to respond faster to cyber incidents
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06 Nov 2023
UK science minister announces quantum tech funding and collaboration plans
Science minister George Freeman announces £14m in funding for quantum technology projects as government signs collaboration agreements with Australia and the Netherlands
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06 Nov 2023
Businesses show increased confidence in 5G performance
Research identifies major challenges standing in the way of businesses making good on 5G expectations
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06 Nov 2023
Risk-Based Lung Cancer Screening May Reduce Racial, Ethnic Disparities
A new study validated and recalibrated the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial 2012 risk prediction model across races and ethnicities.
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06 Nov 2023
Racial Health Disparities in Low-Value Care Call Attention to Bias
Bias, plus disparities in patient care access, could be driving racial health disparities in low-value care receipt.
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06 Nov 2023
AHA Sues Federal Government Over OCR Tracking Technology Guidance
The AHA’s lawsuit suggests that OCR’s tracking technology bulletin disturbs the balance between privacy and information sharing under HIPAA.
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06 Nov 2023
Care Quality, Health Outcomes Better in Medicare Advantage than FFS
There were fewer hospital readmissions and preventable hospitalizations in Medicare Advantage compared to Medicare fee-for-service.
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06 Nov 2023
Consumer Credit Scores Improve After Medical Debt is Wiped from Reports
The average consumer credit score for those with medical debt in collections went from 585 to 615 points after credit bureaus removed debt under $500.
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05 Nov 2023
AWS to open Malaysia cloud region in 2024
Amazon Web Services’ new cloud region in Malaysia will open next year to meet the increased demand for cloud services and support digitisation efforts in the country
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03 Nov 2023
Okta breach led to hijacked sessions for 5 customers
Okta provided a detailed timeline of the events surrounding the breach against its customer support case management systems and said five customers had sessions hijacked.
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03 Nov 2023
Generative AI capabilities highlight latest Denodo update
The data virtualization specialist's platform update includes natural language processing capabilities that reduce repetitive tasks as well as some complexities of data management.
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03 Nov 2023
Executive interview: Sergio Gago, Moody’s
Why should companies invest in quantum computing? We speak to Sergio Gago, managing director for artificial intelligence, machine learning and quantum at Moody’s
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03 Nov 2023
AI executive order does not fix need for federal regulation
The executive order on AI focuses on data privacy, defense and many other areas. While it's seen as comprehensive, many are looking for the U.S. to enact federal legislation.
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03 Nov 2023
New PFS Rule Includes Telehealth Payment, Address Reporting Wins
The 2024 Physician Fee Schedule rule finalizes several pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities, including paying higher non-facility rates for telehealth visits.
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03 Nov 2023
Rigby Capital working with Lombard to prevent tech heading for landfill
Channel player will help dispose of assets and provide options for the finance specialist’s customers to acquire upgraded equipment
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03 Nov 2023
Colt completes Lumen EMEA acquisition
Noting that industry is on the cusp of ground-breaking transformation, digital infrastructure provider seals buyout as part of plan to deliver digital roadmap for global enterprises in hyperconnected marketplace
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03 Nov 2023
Giken Mobility saddles up with Telenor IoT to enhance electric motorcycle connectivity
Fast-growing player in Southeast Asia’s electric mobility sector deploys managed IoT connectivity solutions as part of mission to offer more features on the Iso UNO-X electric motorcycle
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03 Nov 2023
Oz comms milestone claimed as nbn upgrades fixed wireless network
As businesses across regional Australia use more devices and demand more data and speed than ever before, nationwide digital backbone upgrades network to make it easier for people to work remotely and access digital services
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03 Nov 2023
KLAS: Epic Signal Data Cannot Predict EHR Satisfaction, Clinician Burnout
The provider-efficiency tracking feature from Epic does not meaningfully measure EHR satisfaction, but it can serve as a jumping-off point for EHR optimization, according to KLAS.
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03 Nov 2023
Researchers Reveal Positive Data on New Antibiotic for Super Gonorrhea
A phase 3 clinical trial revealed that a new antibiotic, the first in its class, may treat antibiotic-resistant super gonorrhea.
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03 Nov 2023
ML Model Estimates Chemotherapy Success in Bone Cancer Patients
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have successfully developed a machine learning model to calculate percent necrosis in patients with intramedullary osteosarcoma.
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03 Nov 2023
Walmart Health Dips Its Toes Into Care Coordination, Patient Engagement
A Walmart Health deal with Orlando Health will let the two providers streamline care coordination across both health systems.
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03 Nov 2023
HITRUST Responds to RFI on Cybersecurity Regulation Harmonization
In its response to the White House’s RFI on the harmonization of cybersecurity regulations, HITRUST suggested that more regulation alone will not solve persistent cyber challenges.
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03 Nov 2023
7 Elements of Successful Community Health Worker Integration
Several Medicaid programs have taken various approaches to integrating community health workers into their coverage policies and services.
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03 Nov 2023
ASRM Redefines Infertility, Adding Sexual Orientation, Relationships
A 2023 committee opinion by the ASRM updated the definition of fertility to include individuals of varying sexual orientations or relationship status.
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03 Nov 2023
CMS Will Issue OPPS Providers Lump-Sum Payments to Remedy 340B Losses
CMS also finalized a 3.8 percent increase in OPPS payment rates and adjusted price transparency policies.
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03 Nov 2023
CMS Finalizes 1.25% Cut To Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
CMS finalized a conversion factor of $32.74 for the CY 2024 Medicare Physician, representing a 3.4% cut versus CY 2023.
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02 Nov 2023
New IBM Storage Scale focuses on AI, HPC
Adding to the growing list of storage for AI, IBM Storage Scale System 6000 brings the vendor's parallel file system as well as nearly a ronnabyte of capacity to a single cluster.
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02 Nov 2023
Biden seeks H-1B work visa changes as 2024 politics heat up
Biden's administration proposes H-1B visa changes to curb fraud and redefine specialty occupation criteria, which could increase costs for employers.
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02 Nov 2023
SAP unveils AI-focused developer tools at TechEd
SAP debuted AI-infused products for improved developer productivity: SAP Build Code for pro developers, a HANA Cloud vector database and the AI Foundation collection of services.
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02 Nov 2023
Microsoft launches Secure Future Initiative to bolster security
In the wake of several significant attacks, Microsoft announced new initiatives to address software development and vulnerability mitigation, among other security risks.
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02 Nov 2023
Zscaler finds 117 Microsoft 365 bugs via SketchUp 3D file type
Microsoft published patches to address all 117 Microsoft 365 Apps flaws disclosed Tuesday, and the tech giant has disabled support for SketchUp, or SKP, 3D model files.
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02 Nov 2023
IT pros size up Microsoft Radius app developer platform
As the platform engineering era dawns, enterprises seek better ways to tie apps to distributed infrastructure across clouds. But can Azure's owner build multi-cloud consensus?
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02 Nov 2023
Customers struggling with IT complexity
Daisy Corporate Services reveals challenges that IT leaders are facing while trying to keep on top of their technology
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02 Nov 2023
Alludo gunning for remote access server market
Parallels brand owner identifies market opportunity that can be unlocked by working with channel partners
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02 Nov 2023
BT sees accelerated fibre adoption in first half of fiscal year
Half-yearly results call for UK’s incumbent telco shows strengthening of competitive position, with the launch of mobile offer and full-fibre networks reaching more than a third of the UK's homes and businesses with a growing connection rate
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02 Nov 2023
Bristol and Cambridge to host 2024 AI supercomputers
Dell and HPE are working on supercomputers with the two universities as part of the government’s artificial intelligence funding drive
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02 Nov 2023
Admins told to take action over F5 Big-IP platform flaws
Two vulnerabilities in the widely used F5 Networks Big-IP platform are now being exploited in the wild
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02 Nov 2023
AI Safety Summit: Day one review
Computer Weekly breaks down what happened during the first day of the UK government’s AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park