Ohio's Salem Community Hospital and Perry Johnson & Associates, a medical transcription company, face a class action lawsuit following a data breach potentially exposing personal and health information of about nine million people. The lawsuit claims a six-month delay in notification, increasing risk of identity theft, and alleges failure to establish cybersecurity best practice and staff training. The breach, among the larger healthcare data breaches reported this year, revealed personal data, including names, birth dates, medical record numbers, diagnoses, and service times. Several other health systems reported compromised patient data due to the vendor's breach. Defendants allegedly discovered the breach in May but didn't notify until November.

Ohio hospital, vendor hit with class action suit after data breach Healthcare Dive

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.

Three pillars of gen AI adoption in 2024, from Google Cloud's CTO | Google Cloud Blog Google Cloud

Survey reveals happiest employees take 15 days PTO yearly, but 80% experience guilt over taking leave. Workers often work ahead and remain responsive on vacation. Of those 38% US and 23% UK workers with PTO didn't use it, half forfeited it. Some question unlimited PTO validity, with 43% considering it a scam. Guilt can derive from job insecurity, increased workload, or burdened colleagues. Employers addressing guilt offer check-ins, leadership training, open dialogues, and mental health resources.

The happiest employees take this many days of PTO. But a vast majority of workers still feel guilty taking vacation | Fortune Fortune

Brian Solis and design studio JESS3 have released the GenAI Prism v1.0 infographic, a representation of the generative AI universe. Created in collaboration with AI expert Conor Grennan, the infographic organizes generative AI companies, demonstrating the augmentation of human creativity and productivity. GenAI Prism serves as a reference guide, promoting intentional collaboration with AI for thoughtful, effective outcomes. It offers a workflow to utilize generative AI and augment human ingenuity, creating results beyond current capabilities. It enhances, accelerates, and boosts human work, allowing new forms of creation.

Introducing the GenAI Prism Infographic: A Framework for Collaborating with Generative AI - Brian Solis briansolis.com