Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending August 18: NHS spend post-WannaCry, AI accuracy in breast cancer, digital needs for GP capacity, info exchange hampers transitions of care, wearables for diabetes risk, app for GP consults, Imprivata and Microsoft IAM, AI standards needed, Allscripts settles Practice Fusion suit, customising Epic for opioid crisis
NHS trust IT spend up more than £150m since WannaCry
Digital Health News ~ Owen Hughes ~ 15/08/2019
NHS trusts have upped their IT spending by at least £152 million since 2017’s WannaCry ransomware attack, according to figures obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
AI more accurate than docs in challenging breast cancer diagnoses
Health Data Management ~ Greg Slabodkin ~ 14/08/2019
An artificial intelligence system has outperformed pathologists in differentiating atypia from ductal carcinoma in situ—considered to be the greatest challenge in breast cancer diagnosis.
