Trend Micro plans to demonstrate new cybersecurity tools that run on Nvidia chips at the Computex conference this week, according to Reuters.
Why is this important?
Healthcare organizations are leveraging AI to ease the burden of documentation between groups and potentially gather data from across their networks, including electronic health records, in one place that hackers can target when they try to breach medical data, hold it for ransom, and sell it.
“They go inside a company and find huge honeypots of information,” Trend Micro Chief Operating Officer Kevin Simser told Reuters.
Simser also told a Taiwanese news agency on Sunday that the tools could also be used to protect data going into AI systems, such as generative AI chatbots that may contain protected information.
For example, Nvidia AI computing is being leveraged to enhance patient risk assessment.
According to the company, Taiwan's National Institutes of Health and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital are using AI to analyze various genetic and environmental parameters to predict the risk of chronic diseases.
“Previously, this level of analysis was not possible due to computational constraints,” Dr. Hung-Yi Chiu, director of NHRI's Population Health Sciences Institute, said in an NVIDIA blog post on Sunday.
Larger trends
Many technology platforms used by healthcare organizations today have AI-integrated capabilities that leverage provider data, and more AI-integrated capabilities will be coming to the mobile applications accessed by providers and patients.
Last year, Salesforce announced data cloud automation and AI integrations that create real-time patient profiles from EHR data and other systems, and many vendors are offering similar chatbot-based access to streamline operations.
“We're excited to be working with Infermedica, a digital health company that specializes in AI-powered systems for symptom analysis and patient triage,” said Amanda Barry, chief commercial officer at Infermedica, a digital health company that specializes in AI-powered systems for symptom analysis and patient triage. Healthcare IT News Last month, we announced that AI could help optimize patient portals and mobile experiences.
“By integrating AI tools into technologies patients are already familiar with, such as patient portals and mobile applications, healthcare organizations can guide patients to the most appropriate treatment options, including telehealth, based on their specific health profile, medical history and current symptoms,” Berry said.
While genAI may help better serve patient needs, phishing or hackers breaking into the system could ask specific questions to obtain the underlying data.
Be on record
“We're going to look for it, find it first and try to stop it from spreading any further,” Simser told Reuters.
Andrea Fox is a senior editor at Healthcare IT News.
Email: afox@himss.org
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