Vaccinate India’s health IT systems – ET HealthWorld

Vaccinate India’s health IT systems – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has limped back to normalcy after a cyberattack crippled its operations for nearly two weeks. Online registration of patients was resumed after access to servers were restored and lost data recovered. The attack on AIIMS’s hospital IT system, followed by unsuccessful attempts to hack the … Read more

Apple, Epic Systems partner to bring health record tool on macOS – ET HealthWorld

Apple, Epic Systems partner to bring health record tool on macOS – ET HealthWorld

San Francisco: Apple has partnered with medical records company Epic Systems to bring a health record tool on macOS. Apple wanted Epic Systems to develop a native version of the tool for macOS, but the latter is instead working on one that would be simpler to use than a native application, reports AppleInsider. Epic Systems … Read more

Climate finance scarce; early warning systems key to saving lives, livelihoods: Bhupender Yadav at COP27

Climate finance scarce; early warning systems key to saving lives, livelihoods: Bhupender Yadav at COP27

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav stressed that the global pace of climate mitigation is not enough to contain the rate of climate change Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav stressed that the global pace of climate mitigation is not enough to contain the rate of climate change With climate finance still scarce, climate adaptation in the … Read more

PacBio to launch new gene-sequencing systems – ET HealthWorld

PacBio to launch new gene-sequencing systems – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Gene-sequencing company Pacific BioSciences of California Inc on Tuesday announced the launch of a new, more affordable, higher-throughput “long-read” sequencer as well as customer testing of its first “short-read” sequencer aimed at emerging markets such as multi-cancer early detection. The Menlo, California-based company said its new Revio long-read sequencing system, with a list … Read more

AI Systems Can Be Wrong and Not Admit It

AI Systems Can Be Wrong and Not Admit It

April 5, 2022 – Artificial intelligence systems are being built to help diagnose diseases, but before we can trust them with life-and-death responsibilities, AI will need to develop a very human trait: Admitting mistakes. And the truth is: they can’t do that … yet. Today, AI can more often provide the correct answer to a … Read more

WebMD Ranks ‘Best in Class’ Health Systems Across the Country

Oct. 28, 2021 — Consumers and doctors now have a pair of new tools to choose the best care collaborators. WebMD has announced two new awards programs that rank health systems in 26 geographic areas across the country to address the information needs of consumers and health care providers. The awards programs are segmented into … Read more

Kids’ Robust Immune Systems May Shield From COVID

THURSDAY, Feb. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Children have largely been spared severe COVID-19 infection, and new research hints at why. In the study, children’s immune systems attacked the new coronavirus faster and more aggressively than adults’ immune systems did, the findings showed. The researchers analyzed blood samples from 48 children and 70 … Read more