Oracle's federal electronic health record system experience a widespread outage on Tuesday March 4 that impacted VA medical facilities across the country, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. All users of Oracle's federal EHR, including those at VA, Department of Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sites, experienced a nationwide outage of the EHR system, a VA spokesperson confirmed to Fierce Healthcare.
As AI and machine learning have become more important for the betterment of healthcare, the introduction of software as a medical device (SaMD) tools has shown promising results for doctors and patients, foreshadowing the benefits of AI in medicine. However, despite the growing opportunities and increasing acceptance of emerging technologies in the healthcare industry, SaMD product development has been prolonged. Part of the reason for this is that medtech startup companies are not receiving adequate investment from venture capital firms.
A cybersecurity program Microsoft launched last year for rural hospitals has “exceeded projections” with nearly a third of the country’s rural hospitals registering for free or low-cost support, the tech giant said Wednesday. The Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals Program is funded through philanthropic investment and, per last summer’s unveiling, was rolled out in “close collaboration” with the Biden administration, the American Hospital Association and the National Rural Health Association.
In the Wednesday morning keynote address at the HIMSS conference in Las Vegas, General Paul Nakasone, former commander of US Cyber Command and former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), discussed disruptive technology. “As we think about disruptive technologies, the piece that I want to communicate is that there are rapidly evolving landscape technology changes going on in the healthcare industry. We see how artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity are starting to transform how healthcare is delivered, managed, and accessed.”
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