This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
Health Podcast. Here's your daily industry news briefing
for today, January 27th.
First, Change Healthcare has increased its estimates of
the number of people whose personal and health
data was breached in a 2024
ransomware attack to a 190,000,000.
The UnitedHealth Group claims processing subsidiary had previously
reported that hackers compromised the information of a
100,000,000 people before releasing the The
final
number will The final number will be confirmed
and filed with the office for civil rights
at a later date, end quote.
The cyber attack, which delayed health care claims
and payments across the country,
already represented the largest data breach in the
history of health care. UnitedHealth
lost
$3,090,000,000
from the hack in 2024.
The spokesperson
added, quote, Change Healthcare is not aware of
any misuse of individuals' information as a result
of this incident and has not seen electronic
medical record databases appear in the data during
the analysis, end quote.
2nd,
global IT spending is expected to grow 9.8%
in 2025
to 5,600,000,000,000,
with much of that increase going to price
hikes according to Gartner.
And while CIO's expectations for Gen AI are
on the wane, what the IT consultant called
a through of disillusionment,
their spending on technology will continue to rise,
Gartner predicted.
Those hardware upgrades will drive double digit growth
in data center systems, devices, and software this
year.
Here is the forecasted growth in 2025
for 5 IT categories according to the port.
Data center systems at 23.2%,
software at 14.2%,
devices at 10.4%,
IT services at 9%, communication
services at 3.8%.
3rd, health systems continue to partner with big
tech on AI and cloud computing initiatives. Here
are 6 collaborations Becker's has reported on in
the last month.
Mayo Clinic lost a digital pathology platform January
13th, to improve diagnostic speed and accuracy under
a partnership with AI giant, Navidea.
Stanford Healthcare adopted an AI tool to help
inform patients of test results, building it in
house with Amazon Bedrock, a service for developing
Gen AI applications.
6 Health Systems unveiled the Truvita genome project
on January 17th, which Microsoft Azure will provide
exclusive cloud support for.
Co a coalition including Intermountain Health and Microsoft
is working to address the increasing challenges in
rural health care.
Children's Mercy Kansas City is modernizing its infrastructure
by adopting a hybrid cloud approach with Amazon
Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
And lastly, one pillar of Hartford HealthCare's AI
strategy is an ecosystem of partnerships that include
Google and Amazon.
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