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Jan 10, 2024·The Verge

AI and cloud computing expedite search for new battery materials. Microsoft and PNNL's collaboration yields promising solid-state electrolyte for safer, less lithium-dependent batteries. Despite long road for alternatives, generative AI accelerates this work. AQE platform identified 32 million potential battery materials, whittled down to 23 high-potential candidates in 80 hours. One produced working battery, combining lithium and sodium, reducing sodium usage by about 70%. Solid-state battery potentially safer than current lithium-ion batteries, but efficiency struggling. Process simultaneously highlights need for energy-efficient computing and improved batteries. AI and high-performance computing seen as accelerators of scientific discovery.

Jan 3, 2024·Healthcare IT News

Singapore healthcare executives implement digital technologies towards sustainable, connected future healthcare amid staff shortage. The Future Health Index 2023 report highlights Singapore's digital health transformation, with 75% of 200 surveyed clinicians planning to use digital health technology to address workforce shortage. Respondents favour AI for outcome prediction and clinical support; 84% commit to investing in health AI within three years. Half of healthcare leaders invest in virtual care for improved patient care. Singapore's partnership with Microsoft and EVYD Technology further solidifies AI adoption and digital health collaboration.

Dec 21, 2023·Google Cloud

Google Cloud's CTO highlights three pillars for gen AI adoption in 2024: sustainable costs, broad accessibility, AI trust/security. Gen AI's coupling AI capabilities with business results, the Gemini model advancing language-interaction, and comprehending various data types simultaneously. Scaling costs, energy usage, optimisation for data centres, and regulatory compliance are significant factors. Gen AI ubiquity aims to individualise software to each business, employee, and customer needs. Trust/security is fundamental, using gen AI tools for threat detection and managing data access across multi-location systems.

Dec 14, 2023·Google Cloud Blog

AI in healthcare advanced with Google's Med-PaLM, MedLM models. MedLM, designed for healthcare uses, available for US Google Cloud customers. Two models under MedLM cater to different healthcare needs. In future, Gemini-based models to be integrated. HCA Healthcare, BenchSci, Accenture, and Deloitte benefitted from MedLM. HCA Healthcare improved medical documentation with Augmedix. BenchSci expedited drug development. Accenture enhanced healthcare experience, outcomes. Deloitte improved provider search. Google emphasizes safe, responsible AI use in healthcare.

Dec 14, 2023·Healthcare Dive

Google unveiled MedLM, a suite of generatively-trained AI models for healthcare. Tuned on broad datasets, MedLM is designed for tasks like medical documentation, pre-clinical drug development research and improving chatbot experiences for health plan members. Available to U.S. Google Cloud users via Vertex AI, Google intends to expand the range. MedLM builds on the success of Google's Med-PaLM 2 large language model for medical information. Competition in the healthcare generative AI sector includes Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon. A Klas Research survey indicates a growing interest among healthcare executives in AI adoption.

Dec 7, 2023·TechCrunch

DICOM, the standard for sharing medical images, leaves millions of patient records exposed due to security flaws found by German cybersecurity consultancy, Aplite. Over 3,800 servers in 110 countries reveal private data of 16 million patients; 43 million health records also exposed. Majority servers are in the US; over 70% are hosted by Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Under 1% use effective security. Aplite also discovered a new attack vector, allowing data tampering in existing medical images. Implementation of DICOM's security measures could disrupt many legacy systems.

Dec 1, 2023·All Things Distributed

Generative AI, trained on culturally diverse data, is on the rise and is expected to become culturally aware and accessible worldwide. Women's healthcare industry (FemTech) is seeing a rise in investment with increased focus on specific needs. As FemTech grows and goes hybrid, improved patient outcomes are expected. AI assistants will enhance developer productivity by assisting throughout software lifecycle. Industry-led, continuous skills-based training programs are being seen as a necessity as traditional education fails to keep up with tech innovation's pace.

Nov 28, 2023·SiliconANGLE

Generative AI's future hinges on adaptability, says Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky. Highlighting the rise of AI from scarcely discussed topic to tech evolution centrepiece within a year, he predicts adaptive abilities will determine AI's winners. Selipsky advocates for customer choice in AI models, emphasizing that no single model or provider should dominate. He notes the importance of reliable models and providers, backing AWS for adhering to these principles for over 17 years. AWS's AI strategy includes improving cloud infrastructure and expanding their unique gen AI tech stack. Analyzing trends, Selipsky also emphasizes the role of effective data management in realizing gen AI's benefits.

Nov 15, 2023·NVIDIA News

NVIDIA introduces AI foundry service on Microsoft Azure, accelerates custom generative AI applications development for enterprises and startups. The service uses NVIDIA AI Foundation Models, NVIDIA NeMo framework, and NVIDIA DGX Cloud supercomputing services. It enables deployment of customized models using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. SAP, Amdocs, Getty Images are early adopters. The service optimizes generative AI model technologies, LLM training expertise, and scales AI factory. It also assists with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to link models with enterprise data.

Nov 15, 2023·Medical Futurist

Microsoft's understated yet substantial involvement in healthcare includes AI and cloud computing enhancements for medical practices and patient care. Key investments such as Nuance's acquisition and OpenAI partnerships underline Microsoft's dedication to healthcare AI integration. Its cautious healthcare tech approach draws from past setbacks, focusing on cloud services and AI for improved healthcare data connectivity and decision-making. Despite being less visible than Google or Amazon in healthcare, Microsoft's contributions are considerably impactful and effectively advancing future medical solutions.

Nov 4, 2023·Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic launches Quantum Innovation Catalyzer Program for start-ups to explore quantum computing in life sciences and healthcare. Up to four awarded start-ups receive immersive experience including access to IBM Quantum System One computer, workspace, collaboration with Cleveland Clinic clinicians, participation in Quantum Working Group, education programs, and demo day. Participants also have collaborative opportunities with Cleveland Clinic-IBM Discovery Accelerator team, part of 10-year partnership advancing biomedical research. Applications for the program, launching in April, are open till January 15.

Oct 27, 2023·X - Twitter

Engineering improvements made: consolidated tech stacks, rebuilt For you serving and ranking systems, unified video personalization models, refactored API middleware, reduced post metadata latency and global API errors, blocked bots, shut down Sacramento data center, optimized cloud service usage, built on-prem GPU clusters, scaled network capacity, started automated traffic failover tests.

Oct 26, 2023·CNBC

Google Cloud launches AI-powered search tool helping health-care workers access clinical information from various medical records. The tool consolidates information from clinical notes, scanned documents, and electronic health records to one place, expected to save time and energy for doctors and clinicians. It aids in crucial tasks like correct billing codes application and clinical trial eligibility determination. The new feature addresses concerns about data accuracy by linking to the original source of information. Google hopes to reduce clinicians' time spent on navigating databases and patient records. The service is HIPAA compliant and does not use customer data to train models.

Oct 24, 2023·CyberScoop

Cisco's unpatched IOS XE software exploited, compromising tens of thousands of devices globally. Unknown vulnerability lets attackers get full control, with most affected devices in U.S. mainly telecommunications companies. Cisco working on software fix. Attackers leveraged patched vulnerability CVE-2021-1435 and undetermined mechanism for implant installation. Risk of wide-spread exploit attempts targeting organizations for further attack activity.

Oct 23, 2023·CrowdStrike

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday initiative, aimed at increasing manageability and predictability in IT administration, perseveres despite an escalated volume of vulnerabilities. Expanded digital environments and Microsoft product ecosystems have increased system vulnerabilities. The monthly patch release has become burdensome for IT teams as they prioritize patches to avoid adversarial exploitation. Fast, opportunistic adversaries exploit vulnerabilities, including in Microsoft products. Microsoft's vulnerability issue undermines Patch Tuesday's intended efficiency and defenses, arguing for improved security design to alleviate patching burdens.

Oct 12, 2023·CNBC

Microsoft introduced healthcare-specific tools in Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI to centralize and standardize data from electronic health records, images, lab systems, medical devices, and claims systems, enhancing healthcare organizations' data accessibility and usage and allowing more focus on patient care.

Oct 2, 2023·The Record

Progress Software discloses vulnerabilities in WS_FTP Server, urging immediate patching. Notably exploited MOVEit developer now faces potential backlash and lawsuits over exploitations. Eight vulnerabilities affect all WS_FTP Server versions, hotfixes provided. Severe issues CVE-2023-40044 and CVE-2023-42657 remediated by full installer upgrade. Clop ransomware gang previously exploited vulnerabilities in MOVEit and others, exposing sensitive data of tens of millions. File transfer tools remain key hacker targets.

Sep 25, 2023·This Week Health

Healthcare IT needs robust cloud security due to digital transformation. Experienced professionals suggest understanding evolving threats, overcoming staff and budget constraints. Cloud-based solutions dominate healthcare, offering agility and cost efficiency, but bring cybersecurity challenges. Transition to the cloud requires a strategic shift considering issues like sub-optimal data center locations. Effective strategies include choosing a reliable partner and budget considerations. Economically secure cloud solutions involve choosing partners offering protection, system improvements, efficient integration, and staffing solutions. As healthcare migrates to the cloud, cybersecurity landscape evolves, requiring adaptable, cost-effective strategies and partnerships.

Sep 24, 2023·diginomica

Oracle is planning to establish national healthcare databases, focused on collecting and centralising healthcare data to improve patient care. Leveraging Oracle’s Cloud Data Intelligence Platform, the scheme will allow better decision-making by doctors by providing personalised care based on compiled data. According to Mike Sicilia, Oracle’s VP of Industries, the firm is ready to start implementing these databases, even prepared to build new data centres where needed. The strategy suits localised healthcare service providers while functioning at national or federal level. The shift to modernising healthcare delivery includes replacing existing systems, implementing Oracle's full stack systems and focusing on data sovereignty for patient data protection.

Sep 24, 2023·Reuters

Intel's December chip enables AI chatbots on laptops without cloud data centers. The "Meteor Lake" chip offers businesses and consumers the ability to test generative AI technologies, ensuring data security. Demonstrations showed song generation and conversational AI assistant without internet connection. Intel expects market gains in AI work outside data centers.