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20 Dec 2024
Trump's stance on E-Verify checks shifting over time
Employers remain cautious about how immigration policies will change under Trump, given his waffling over E-Verify checks and the potential for a DACA repeal.
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20 Dec 2024
Post Office creates CTO role to support ‘extensive and complex’ plans
Post Office bolsters its IT leadership team as it grapples with massive tech transformation with the nation looking on
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20 Dec 2024
HTI-3 final rule updates information blocking exceptions
The Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: Protecting Care Access (HTI-3) final rule adds a new information blocking exception to protect access to reproductive healthcare.
All News from the past 365 days
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07 Feb 2024
Researchers Call for Outcome-Centric Approach to Health AI Regulation
University of California San Diego researchers argue that healthcare AI regulations should require developers to demonstrate how these tools impact patient outcomes.
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07 Feb 2024
How Do Payers Cover COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments, and Tests Post-PHE?
Public and private payers generally offer some coverage of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests, but cost-sharing requirements vary.
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06 Feb 2024
UK’s McPartland Cyber Review to probe trust in technology
The UK government has launched a cyber security review that will investigate how best to give businesses the confidence they need to use new technologies
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06 Feb 2024
Dell looks for growth with partner programme enhancements
Supplier keen to use improved rewards and simplified processes to garner further channel growth
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06 Feb 2024
Google: Spyware vendors are driving zero-day exploitation
Google's Threat Analysis Group urged further government action against commercial surveillance vendors that let customers abuse spyware products with impunity.
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06 Feb 2024
Linux group announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance
The Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance aims to 'drive the advancement and adoption of post-quantum cryptography' and respond to security threats introduced by the emerging tech.
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06 Feb 2024
Meta will label AI-generated images on social platforms
The social media giant's decision to label AI-generated content is a good first step, some observers say, but does not eradicate the problem of disinformation in an election year.
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06 Feb 2024
OCR Reaches $4.75M Settlement With NY Health System
OCR reached a settlement with Montefiore Medical Center over potential HIPAA Security Rule violations that occurred over a decade ago.
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06 Feb 2024
UK government responds to AI whitepaper consultation
The UK government is considering introducing binding legal requirements for companies developing the most powerful AI systems, and has outlined a range of funding to realise the ambitions of its ‘pro-innovation’ framework for artificial intelligence
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06 Feb 2024
Inquiry to explore cyber risk to Sunak-Starmer showdown
The UK’s Joint Committee on National Security Strategy is opening an inquiry into securing the democratic process ahead of the next general election
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06 Feb 2024
New Acceldata co-pilot targets efficiency, broader use
The data observability specialist's new generative AI-powered capabilities are designed to help experts be more efficient as well as enable non-technical users to work with data.
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06 Feb 2024
UK and France push for international agreement on spyware
The UK and France are hosting diplomats, big tech companies and civil society groups, in a two-day conference in London targeting the proliferation of spyware tools and ‘hackers for hire’
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06 Feb 2024
How a Primary Care-Based Housing Instability Program Cut Outpatient Utilization
The housing instability program reduced primary care visits by 2.5 visits and outpatient visits by 3.6.
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06 Feb 2024
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Reduce 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure
Data from the SURMOUNT-1 study on tirzepatide revealed that it can reduce 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure.
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06 Feb 2024
Komprise adds disaster recovery with granular restorations
The Komprise Intelligent Data Management platform gains new DR capabilities that enable granular recovery of file and object resources through the existing user console.
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06 Feb 2024
Cisco unveils innovations for observability as it looks to future networking vision
Networking and IT tech and services giant kicks off European flagship event with major enhancements to networking cloud vision, innovations in digital experience and user monitoring for cloud-native applications
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06 Feb 2024
CIO interview: Stuart Birrell, chief data and information officer, EasyJet
The short-haul airline fills an aircraft every 10 seconds through its e-commerce operation – all while transforming its booking systems and migrating its IT estate to the cloud
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06 Feb 2024
Post Office scandal: Phase four’s rogues’ gallery
Phase four of the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal revealed ‘a parade of liars, bullies, amnesiacs and arrogant individuals’ that made up the teams investigating and prosecuting subpostmasters
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06 Feb 2024
Dell encourages GenAI involvement with partner competency
One of the features of the enhanced Partner programme was the launch of a process to validate those up to speed on the technology
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06 Feb 2024
Inside NetApp’s cloud and AI strategy
NetApp’s senior executives talk up the company’s efforts to support AI initiatives and deliver first-party storage services on public cloud platforms
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06 Feb 2024
Revenue Cycle Management, AI Take Center Stage in 2024
As CFOs expect profitability increases, revenue cycle management and tech investments become top priorities.
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06 Feb 2024
Women with PCOS Are Almost 8.5 Times More Likely to Attempt Suicide
Even after adjusting for multiple factors, including psychiatric comorbid conditions, women with PCOS are at a significantly higher risk of attempted suicide.
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05 Feb 2024
Partners: Businesses enlist AI in business model reinvention
IT services executives believe the most digitally advanced companies will embark on business model reinvention projects highlighting AI as a key technology for managing change.
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05 Feb 2024
AnyDesk hacked, details unclear
Of the hack, AnyDesk said it found 'no evidence that any end-user devices have been affected.' But researchers said they saw AnyDesk customer credentials for sale on the dark web.
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05 Feb 2024
Cloudian HyperStore 8 unites file, object storage
Cloudian's latest release of HyperStore lets hybrid storage deployments seamlessly swap between file and object. Analysts speculate how it will compete in a crowded market.
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05 Feb 2024
Blackbaud blasted for failing to prevent customer breaches
A supply chain attack at software supplier Blackbaud in 2020 saw data on multiple UK organisations compromised. The US authorities are now taking steps to ensure it can’t happen again
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05 Feb 2024
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
It's been a busy time on the personnel front, with movement across various levels of the channel, including Infinigate, Logicalis, Sabio, Assured Data Protection, Netskope, SolarWinds, Enreach and Epsilon Telecommunications
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05 Feb 2024
ONC, SAMHSA Launch Initiative for Behavioral Health IT Interoperability
The agencies will work together to invest $20 million of SAMHSA funds over the next three years to advance behavioral health IT interoperability standards.
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05 Feb 2024
US sanctions Iranians behind CNI cyber attacks
US government issues new sanctions against six Iranians suspected of being behind a series of cyber attacks targeting critical national infrastructure, notably water supply systems
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05 Feb 2024
Gigabit drives UK local authority connectivity priorities for 2024
Research finds ultra-high speed broadband roll out remains top priority for local authority digital leaders, 5G continues to divide opinion, and apparent lack of focus on net-zero activities
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05 Feb 2024
HHS Launches 3 Public-Private Partnerships for Food Is Medicine Efforts
The partnerships with Instacart, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Feeding America will focus on research on and implementation of food is medicine programs nationwide.
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05 Feb 2024
UK quantum initiatives get funding boost
Government funds new initiatives to drive quantum computing opportunities across the public sector
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05 Feb 2024
RM looking to deliver trusted education relationship
RM keen to add more value to help improve the experiences for children in the classroom and those who are teaching them
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05 Feb 2024
What’s standing in the way of the UK being an AI superpower?
Artificial intelligence (AI) could bring a big economic boost to the UK, says report, but there are still barriers to overcome
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05 Feb 2024
Is SAP on the rise?
This year represents a tipping point for SAP to convince cagey customers of the value of cloud enterprise resource planning
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05 Feb 2024
Ransomware Makes ECRI’s Top Health Tech Hazards List
The threat of ransomware and the risks of third-party web analytics software on patient confidentiality were among ECRI’s top health tech hazards of 2024.
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05 Feb 2024
Machine Learning Tool Predicts Heart Failure Treatment Response
New machine learning approach may help identify and predict diuretic responsiveness among patients with acute decompensated heart failure.
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05 Feb 2024
Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy Loss Tied to Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs
Out-of-pocket costs increased by 700 percent for beneficiaries who experienced a temporary loss of their Medicare Part D low-income subsidy.
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05 Feb 2024
Gender-Affirming Care Access Laws Affect 38% of Trans Youth
There are gender-affirming care access restrictions in 23 states, which affects 38 percent of trans youth in the US.
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02 Feb 2024
Cloudflare discloses breach related to stolen Okta data
Cloudflare initially believed it contained an attempted cyberattack last October by a threat actor using an access token stolen in a breach of Okta's customer support system.
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02 Feb 2024
Own, Check point and TD Synnex offering programmes and support
The latest examples of how vendors and distributors support channel growth illustrate the importance of incentives and rewards
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02 Feb 2024
‘People are now listening,' Post Office inquiry told as latest phase ends
The latest phase of the public inquiry into the widest miscarriage of justice in modern UK history – the Post Office Horizon IT scandal – closes with a bang
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02 Feb 2024
AWS talks up Q4 increase in large customer wins as global market share drops
Amazon Web Services clocked up double-digit revenue growth during the final quarter of 2023, but analyst figures show the company is losing market share to Microsoft
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02 Feb 2024
BT sees strong fibre uptake in third quarter
Telco’s trading update for nine months to 31 December 2023 shows a quarter of revenue and EBITDA growth while upgrading customers to full-fibre broadband and 5G networks, staying on track to achieve financial outlook for full year
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02 Feb 2024
AI impacting print market with shift to digital capture
Shift towards scanning documents will have an impact on print volumes and the approach the channel needs to take with users
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02 Feb 2024
Meta ramps up GPUs to get ready for general intelligence
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg anticipates that training and running AI systems requires 10x computer capacity each year
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02 Feb 2024
Preterm and Early-Term Birth Rates in the US Increased Since 2014
An analysis of the births by gestational age indicated a shift toward shorter gestational age as the rates of preterm and early-term births increased since 2014.
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02 Feb 2024
Predictive Model Accurately Tracks Alzheimer's Disease Progression
The DETree framework combines Alzheimer’s progression modeling with individual prediction to forecast how a patient’s disease may develop over time.
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02 Feb 2024
HCSC Announces $3.3B Cigna Medicare Business Acquisition
Barring regulatory or conditional challenges, the payer expects the acquisition to be finalized in early 2025.
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02 Feb 2024
Breaking Down the Cost of Sickle Cell Disease Gene Therapies
As CMS attempts to navigate the astronomical costs of new sickle cell disease treatments, including gene therapy, it is critical to break down treatment costs.
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02 Feb 2024
Hospital Finances Approach Pre-Pandemic Levels
2023 was a much more promising year for hospitals as margins improved by more than 15% compared to the previous year, Kaufman Hall reports.
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02 Feb 2024
Patient Education Key as Home Medical Devices Pose Patient Safety Threat
At-home medical devices can be confusing to use, posing a potential patient safety hazard, but experts say patient education and user-centered design could help.
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01 Feb 2024
AI: House of Lords focuses on copyright and transparency
Large language models promise to boost UK productivity, but the tech needs greater scrutiny and questions remain over intellectual property
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01 Feb 2024
TD Bank plans AIOps consolidation on Dynatrace SaaS
The dream of zero-touch autoremediation remains alive for the bank as it prepares to go all in on Dynatrace SaaS for observability-driven IT automation.
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01 Feb 2024
New H-1B visa rule promises fairer play, but higher stakes
A U.S. H-1B lottery rule change aims to reduce fraud by allowing only one lottery entry per candidate, potentially putting some beneficiaries in a strong position.
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01 Feb 2024
FASB rule could shake up, simplify software cost reporting
Stakeholders want a single rule for reporting software development costs in a simplified manner, which the Financial Accounting Standards Board is considering.
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01 Feb 2024
Critical infrastructure hacks raise alarms on Chinese threats
FBI Director Christopher Wray and CISA Director Jen Easterly warned that China was targeting critical infrastructure for possible destructive attacks in the event of a conflict with the United States.
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01 Feb 2024
CISA deputy director touts progress, anti-ransomware efforts
In this Q&A, CISA Deputy Director Nitin Natarajan shares his thoughts on scaling up to meet high demand, the agency's new initiative to address ransomware and more.
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01 Feb 2024
Acumatica ERP to expand with Professional Services Edition
At Acumatica Summit 2024, the cloud ERP vendor for SMBs unveiled a new Professional Services Edition and focused on delivering customer-centered AI capabilities.
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01 Feb 2024
Databricks acquisition of Einblick enhances GenAI portfolio
The data lakehouse pioneer's latest purchase adds NLP capabilities to the generative AI features at the core of its new Data Intelligence Platform.
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01 Feb 2024
US government disrupts Chinese botnet containing hundreds of end-of-life Cisco and Netgear routers
The US government has succeeded in halting a botnet comprised of hundreds of end-of-life routers that posed a threat to critical national infrastructure (CNI) organisations in multiple countries
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01 Feb 2024
HHS Final Rule to Solidify Access to OUD Medications via Telehealth
The agency plans to make permanent pandemic-era flexibilities, including expanding telehealth access to medications for opioid use disorder.
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01 Feb 2024
Welsh workers’ AI experiences shaped by uneven power dynamics
Workers in Wales are being negatively affected by the unregulated introduction of artificial intelligence into workplaces due to asymmetric power dynamics
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01 Feb 2024
McArthurGlen gets tailor-made connectivity and security for fashion outlets
Critical network infrastructure provider teams with bespoke network services company to deliver reliable and secure connectivity for McArthurGlen’s nine retail sites across the UK
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01 Feb 2024
UK ranks third in OECD Digital Government Index
The UK has dropped from overall second to third place in the international digital government survey, but fails to feature in the top 10 countries when it comes to having a data-driven public sector
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01 Feb 2024
Defra legacy IT: 180 applications refreshed, over 1,500 remain
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has a 10-year plan to update technology. So far, 180 have been replaced or updated
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01 Feb 2024
NIS2 seen as a channel opportunity
Westcon-Comstor uncovers channel hopes that security compliance directive will spark user interest in products and services
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01 Feb 2024
UK government signs AI, science and innovation deals with Canada
The agreements will see the two countries collaborate on AI compute – a development component of artificial intelligence – and work together on technology innovations such as quantum and semiconductors
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01 Feb 2024
Hospital Outpatient Departments Preserve Care Access for Rural Patients
Rural populations receiving care at hospital outpatient departments tend to be dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid and have complex health conditions.
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01 Feb 2024
SME market trends supporting further MSP growth
The CEO of Kaseya has shared his thoughts on the reasons why the year ahead will be a positive one for managed service providers
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01 Feb 2024
Government ‘dragging it out’ by refusing to share knowledge of Post Office trial ‘delaying tactic’
Subpostmasters will have to wait to find out if the government knew of the Post Office’s plan to derail group litigation order, by trying to push managing judge out
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01 Feb 2024
CDC Data Raises Concerns About Rising Syphilis Cases
A CDC analysis of STI data from 2022 prompts concerns about rising syphilis cases despite chlamydia cases stabilizing and gonorrhea cases declining over the past year.
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01 Feb 2024
Mislabeled Packaging Results in Recalled ADHD Medication
Last week, Azurity Pharmaceuticals issued a voluntary recall of Zenzedi, an ADHD and narcolepsy medication, due to mislabeled packaging.
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01 Feb 2024
Lawmakers Lobby for Payment and Policy Stability in Medicare Advantage
The group of senators called for payment and policy stability in Medicare Advantage in the wake of new marketing, competition, and prior authorization standards.
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31 Jan 2024
Astera Labs uses CXL to accelerate AI, expand memory
Astera Labs is using the CXL interface in its now longer Smart Cable Module to spread out energy consumption while enabling GPU clusters to meet growing AI demands.
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31 Jan 2024
Former Workday co-CEO takes helm at Eightfold
Former Workday co-CEO Chano Fernandez joins Eightfold AI in a similar role, advocating for unbiased, skills-based hiring and navigating new AI regulations.
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31 Jan 2024
Dynatrace adds price tier, data pipeline amid cost crunch
Dynatrace looks to accommodate observability data growth more affordably, but enterprise IT pros have many emerging alternatives to tackle this growing problem.
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31 Jan 2024
Ivanti discloses new zero-day flaw, releases delayed patches
While Ivanti customers can start patching two previously disclosed vulnerabilities, they must also address two new flaws for the same product.
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31 Jan 2024
Rockset targets cost control with latest database update
The real-time database specialist added new compute power optimization and workload autoscaling capabilities to help customers better control their cloud computing costs.
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31 Jan 2024
CMS Proposes 3.7% Increase in Medicare Advantage Plan Payments
In addition to an increase in Medicare Advantage plan payments, CMS proposed updates to the Part D risk adjustment model and star ratings.
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31 Jan 2024
Hitachi Vantara and Cisco roll out managed services offering
The channel is getting its hands on the fruits of a tie-up that should make life easier for customers looking for a hybrid cloud service
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31 Jan 2024
Aviva signs 15-year contract with Indian IT giant
Tata Consultancy Services continues to make large gains in the UK life insurance and pensions sector
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31 Jan 2024
ThoughtSpot update adds feedback loop to help train GenAI
The vendor continues to focus on generative AI, updating its conversational interface with more in-depth analysis capabilities and adding new methods of improving LLM accuracy.
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31 Jan 2024
Midwich launches investment arm
Audiovisual equipment distributor looks to encourage innovation across the segment with private equity operation
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31 Jan 2024
VA Cuts Homelessness, SDOH by 55% with Housing First Model
The crux of VA’s housing first model was the addition of wraparound care and social services to address homelessness and other SDOH.
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31 Jan 2024
Vertex Non-Opioid Drug Is an Effective Pain Management Medication
Vertex Pharmaceutical announced the positive results from a phase 3 clinical trial on VX-548, a non-opioid pain management drug, in a press announcement.
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31 Jan 2024
Singtel ropes in industry partners in datacentre push
Singtel inks partnerships with Nvidia, Gulf Energy, Medco and others in its efforts to grow its datacentre business and support AI adoption in Singapore and Southeast Asia
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31 Jan 2024
Forrester: Curb your AI enthusiasm
Ongoing supply issues with semiconductors mean IT departments may have to wait up to a year for the latest hardware
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31 Jan 2024
Microsoft results show benefits of AI on Azure
The company’s cloud business posted revenue of $33bn, with new AI inferencing workloads driving up demand
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31 Jan 2024
Epic Study Finds Health Data Exchange Lowers Risk of Code Blue
In patients with a higher level of acuity in the ED, the presence of outside health data is linked to a 34 to 63 percent reduced risk of a code blue event, an Epic study found.
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31 Jan 2024
Datacentre operators face capacity planning challenges as AI use soars
A report by real estate consultancy JLL highlights the pressures datacentres operators are facing as they respond to the growing demand for artificial intelligence workloads
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31 Jan 2024
Seagate uses HAMR to hit 30TB in Exos hard drives
HDD giant Seagate unveils 30TB Exos drives with higher areal density, aimed at hyperscaler customers, with products at 50TB promised for 2028 in its roadmap
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31 Jan 2024
How Affordability Challenges Reveal Care Disparities for ESI Members
Although some populations were more likely to utilize services like mental healthcare or preventive care, care disparities showed up in their affordability challenges.
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31 Jan 2024
Healthcare Administrative Spending Increased by 50%
Staffing shortages, security challenges, and increased time needed to conduct transactions are behind a significant rise in healthcare administrative spending, CAQH reports.
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31 Jan 2024
Insurance Broker Data Breach Impacts 1.5M Individuals
Keenan & Associates suffered a data breach in August 2023 that potentially exposed some client health information.
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31 Jan 2024
Safeguards Needed for Generative AI EHR Data Summarization
A viewpoint published in JAMA notes that EHR data summarization LLMs could perpetuate bias, underscoring the need for FDA oversight.
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31 Jan 2024
Data-Focused Strategy May Hinder Generative AI Deployment in Healthcare
New Deloitte survey suggests that healthcare leaders must focus on data, governance, consumers, and the workforce to successfully implement generative AI.
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31 Jan 2024
Lawmakers Call on HHS to Collaborate on Telehealth Access Policies
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and Congressional branches are urging HHS to work with them to ensure that expanded access to telehealth is not curtailed.