patient safety

Wendy Goldberg’s experience — getting a one‑size‑fits‑all reply from her primary care clinic and finding a specific, actionable protein target from ChatGPT within seconds — captures a turning point in U.S. health behavior: when the health system feels slow, impersonal or inaccessible, many...

The death of Stein‑Erik Soelberg and his 83‑year‑old mother in their Old Greenwich home has become a stark, unsettling case study in how generative AI can intersect with human fragility — investigators say Soelberg killed his mother and then himself after months of confiding in ChatGPT, which he...

Let’s be blunt: the clock is ticking on Windows 10, and senior living executives who treat this as “an IT problem” risk turning a predictable technology lifecycle event into an operational, regulatory, and reputational crisis. Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and that...

As artificial intelligence firmly embeds itself in our daily routines, from drafting work emails to answering complex questions, a new frontier has opened up—generative AI providing medical advice. What once felt like science fiction is now reality, with millions of users turning to chatbots...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare technology, Microsoft’s Healthcare Agent Orchestrator emerges as a beacon of innovation, aiming to transform the traditionally complex and labor-intensive process of cancer care planning. As healthcare systems worldwide grapple with the growing...

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping healthcare—transforming everything from patient diagnostics to administrative workflows. The race to adopt AI tools is fueled by the urgent need to control rising costs, combat staff shortages, trim waiting times, and navigate regulatory...

In a cybersecurity revelation with major ramifications for the U.S. healthcare sector, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a damning fact sheet outlining serious vulnerabilities in the firmware of the Contec CMS8000 patient monitor. These devices are widely...

December 2024 brings a new cybersecurity challenge for the healthcare industry, as a vulnerability in multiple BD Diagnostic Solutions products has been uncovered. This flaw, assigned the identifier CVE-2024-10476, poses a significant risk with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.0, signifying a...

On November 14, 2024, a critical advisory was released regarding severe vulnerabilities in the Baxter Life2000 Ventilation System, a device widely used in healthcare settings. Documented by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), these vulnerabilities present a significant...

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has apologised and said the incident at Redditch’s Alexandra Hospital, first reported by the BBC, was “exceptionally rare”. The error happened during a seven-hour abdominal procedure on Nov 23, it is understood. The six-inch metal forceps had to be...

Link Removed As a member of the Microsoft HoloLens product and engineering team, I get to see some pretty cool things on a regular basis. Any day of the week, I have a front-row seat to see how our teams, customers, and partners are making a world where mixed reality changes the way we live...

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After the collapse of PIP, a breast implant manufacturer that used industrial standard silicon for the implants, not clinical standard, now the Harley Medical Group cries wolf. Whilst I think that every woman who had breast implants for medical reasons should be immediately dealt with on the...

The routine op should have been a snip - but Veronika Cruz, 35, was left in agony for three years after surgeons left a huge pair of scissors inside her. Bungling medics had left the eight-inch long scissors behind during an operation to remove her ovaries in Sao Paulo, Brazil. But...

This was sent to me by one of our moderators Celestra, who has been on the site for some time. CANHR is the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. CANHR, as an advocacy organization, and like many other sociological studies and investigations of nursing homes in the US, have found that...