At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Nvidia announced major AI partnerships with Lilly and Thermo Fisher Scientific to accelerate drug discovery and automate laboratory infrastructure globally.
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At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Nvidia announced major AI partnerships with Lilly and Thermo Fisher Scientific to accelerate drug discovery and automate laboratory infrastructure globally.
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Hackers stole patients’ personal, treatment, and health insurance information from the organization’s IT systems.
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On Wednesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health, a dedicated section of the AI chatbot designed for "health and wellness conversations" intended to connect a user's health and medical records to the chatbot in a secure way.
But mixing generative AI technology like ChatGPT with health advice or analysis of any kind has been a controversial idea since the launch of the service in late 2022. Just days ago, SFGate published an investigation detailing how a 19-year-old California man died of a drug overdose in May 2025 after 18 months of seeking recreational drug advice from ChatGPT. It's a telling example of what can go wrong when chatbot guardrails fail during long conversations and people follow erroneous AI guidance.
Despite the known accuracy issues with AI chatbots, OpenAI's new Health feature will allow users to connect medical records and wellness apps like Apple Health and MyFitnessPal so that ChatGPT can provide personalized health responses like summarizing care instructions, preparing for doctor appointments, and understanding test results.
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The Qilin ransomware group hacked the healthcare organization and stole data from its systems in May 2025.
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Threat actors stole names, Social Security numbers, and financial and health information, and deployed ransomware on RBHA’s systems.
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The Akira ransomware group took credit for the Fieldtex Products hack in November, claiming to have stolen 14 Gb of data.
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Casera, a new healthcare technology startup in Seattle, is spinning out of Pioneer Square Labs with a unique approach to hospital operations: using “agentic AI” to automate the work of case managers and speed up patient flow.
The company is tackling a thorny problem in healthcare: unnecessary length of stay driven by operational friction. Delays in communication, payer authorization and discharge planning can add time to a patient’s stay — and thousands of dollars in expenses for hospitals each day, according to Casera.
The company’s software is built for case managers, who coordinate the operational steps required to move patients safely through the system.
Casera describes its product as a “Case Manager Digital Agent” that operates inside communication channels, watching for context and then triggering next steps — for example, following up on a pending prior authorization or making sure all tasks for a complex discharge have owners and due dates.
Casera’s system plugs into existing collaboration and communication tools, and helps identify “what needs to happen, who needs to be involved, and helps ensure it gets done,” according to CEO Neeraj Singh Bhavani, who previously started patient-flow startup Tagnos (acquired by Sonitor).
Bhavani sees the company’s main competition in vendors that have traditionally focused on patient flow and hospital capacity management, including Qventus, LeanTaaS and TeleTracking. But he said Casera is attacking a different layer of the problem by focusing on “getting things done versus telling what to do.”
“Not trying to be another legacy dashboard and analytics player,” he told GeekWire.
Casera is working with a design partners across major health systems in three states. It has not generated revenue.
Casera’s other co-founder is CTO Alex Levin, who previously started revenue intelligence company MD Clarity (acquired by private equity). A third early leader, Jhayne Pana, was previously an assistant nurse manager with MultiCare Health.
The company has raised $1 million from PSL and has less than ten employees. PSL previously spun out Kevala, a healthcare staffing software company that was acquired earlier this year.
“Tackling patient flow with automation is a massive opportunity, and a very good use case for multiple agentic applications,” T.A. McCann, managing director at Pioneer Square Labs, said in a statement. “It’s an area we know well and in addition to the clear market need, the opportunity to work with two, recently-exited founders was a huge bonus.”
Cyber security researchers recently found that hospitals are leaving millions of private medical images electronically accessible by way of insecure storage practices. Over 45 million medical images from scans such as X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans are stored on unsecured servers and storage devices.
On top of patient privacy concerns, cybercriminals could steal the data on these systems to blackmail individuals. Hackers could also leverage these under-secured servers to execute ransomware attacks on healthcare facilities.
In the past few months, we’ve seen an alarming increase in the number of healthcare groups hit with ransomware attacks. A key US healthcare system recently enacted EHR downtime procedures after falling victim to a ransomware related ruse. A string of strikes has shut down a variety of health focused organizations across the past few months, impacting over 60 providers and more than 500 facilities.
These millions of medical files may be needed for clinical decision-making purposes. Without on-demand access, people may receive sub-standard healthcare and may suffer through serious consequences.
Medical groups may be using outdated technologies that leave patients and their data vulnerable. Healthcare security budgets are often stretched thin and organizations may resist purchasing new equipment or even investing in better security.
In one recent example, 45 million unique cases of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) exposed. Further, researchers found malicious scripts on several servers, indicating that malicious actors had already accessed the unsecured devices.
It goes without saying, cyber security in the healthcare sector needs to be a top priority, especially as these organizations are at the frontline of this global pandemic.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recommends following best practices, from proper segmentation to explicit access rules. For additional insights into securing the healthcare sector, check out Cyber Talk’s healthcare-focused whitepapers and solutions briefs.
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