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A new cybersecurity mandate in New York requires hospitals to implement incident reporting within 72 hours and have a chief information security officer, says George Pappas, healthcare cybersecurity expert and CEO of Intraprise Health.

Dr. Jay Anders, chief medical officer at Medicomp Systems, says it is necessary to slow down AI implementation due to a lack of transparency, AI not being trained on real-patient data and the potential implications of synthetic data use.

They will collaborate on identifying novel therapeutic drug candidates for lung cancer.

Cybersecurity is linked to health equity and vice versa, says HIMSS senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy. Cybersecurity must extend beyond the clinical setting as data access to patient information is necessary.

Dr. Keisuke Nakagawa, director of innovation at UC Davis Health, highlights how artificial intelligence can help unearth social determinants of health and how AI can advance health equity.  

The Society urges collaboration between clinicians and technologists, and healthcare organizations to use the tech to assist the clinical workforce, not replace it. 

Third-party risk management was the No. 1 weak link reported in organizations' cyberdefense strategies, says Jill Brewer, market insights lead at HIMSS. The No. 1 technology to use is AI-powered threat-detection and analytics.  

Richard Staynings, a University of Denver professor, highlights the drawbacks and benefits of AI in patient care and precision medicine, advancing cybersecurity in healthcare, and malicious use of the technology to get past malware defenses.

The launch comes a little over one year after digital health firm Babylon sold almost all of its U.K. assets to digital health company eMed Healthcare U.K.

Anurag Mehta, CEO and cofounder of Omega Healthcare, discusses the reasons for clinician and staff burnout and virtual nursing's role in easing providers’ duties, including responding to digital messages and completing EHR tasks.