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Foundation Model for Advancing Healthcare: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions
Yuting He, Fuxiang Huang, Xinrui Jiang, Yuxiang Nie, Minghao Wang, Jiguang Wang, Hao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03264

Foundation Model for Advancing Healthcare: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions
Foundation model, which is pre-trained on broad data and is able to adapt to a wide range of tasks, is advancing healthcare. It promotes the development of healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) models, breaking the contradiction between limited AI models and diverse healthcare practices. Much more widespread healthcare scenarios will benefit from the development of a healthcare foundation model (HFM), improving their advanced intelligent healthcare services. Despite the impending widespread d…

After the Change Healthcare attack, the US will relax some Medicare prescription rules and consider advance payments; some providers begin furloughing staff (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/calls-mount-f

Check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Havoc following the attack on Change Healthcare deepens
--DOJ indicts IRGC-linked hacker for massive cyberespionage campaign,
--N. Korea conducted cyber attacks on S. Korea's semiconductor companies,
--Russian intel eavesdropped on German military brass via WebEx,
--CryptoChameleon phishing targets FCC employees,
--German cops seize Crimemarket,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/healthcare-havoc-following-attack-change-healthcare-deepens

Christian employers cannot be forced to cover gender transitions, judge rules (Gabrielle M. Etzel/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/2904133/christian-employers-cannot-be-forced-to-cover-gender-transitions-judge-rules/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240305/p72#a240305p72

After the Change Healthcare attack, the US will relax some Medicare prescription rules and consider advance payments; some providers begin furloughing staff (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/calls-mount-f

Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment
https://www.wired.com/story/alphv-change-healthcare-ransomware-payment/

#Healthcare

How A Race-Based Test Prevented Thousands Of Black People From Receiving Kidney Transplants | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2024/04/05/for-years-a-race-based-test-preven…

How A Race-Based Test Prevented Thousands Of Black People From Receiving Kidney Transplants | Atlanta Daily World
Since 1999, a race-based test has kept thousands of Black people from being appropriately placed on the kidney transplant list. A concerning practice that is shedding light on the systemic bias deeply entrenched within the healthcare system. Black Americans are over three times more likely than white people to experience kidney failure. Of the roughly … Continued

UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted "maybe a third" of Americans and it'll take "several months" to notify victims (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://tech…

United HealthCare CEO says 'maybe a third' of U.S. citizens were affected by recent hack | TechCrunch
Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data, it’s still unclear how many Americans were UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty finally gave an estimate of how many Americans were impacted by the hack on the company's subsidiary Change Healthcare.

https://cyberscoop.com/alphv-website-ransomware-attack-change-healthcare/
ALPHV website goes down amid growing fallout from Change Healthcare attack