Andrea Fox

Andrea Fox is Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News. She has 20 years of experience covering numerous beats, including digital modernization, public health, environment and utilities, transportation and government policy and operations.

A patient sits with a doctor and seems concerned.
By Andrea Fox 11:18 am July 20, 2023
After legal pushback from providers and a veto of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority requirements, the OHCA Board approved emergency rules to encourage collaboration with the new statewide health information exchange that launched July 1.
Woman with short hair washes carrots with an electric faucet.
By Andrea Fox 10:28 am July 20, 2023
A new API that uses algorithms and proprietary machine learning to enhance energy usage data can alert caregivers about unusual habits that may require intervention.
Hospital beds parked in a corridor
By Andrea Fox 11:29 am July 19, 2023
The HIPAA-compliant video analytics platform will be layered on UMC’s existing security systems. When it identifies guns, trained experts verify the threat and can dispatch alerts and intelligence to the police.
A 3D fiberoptic lock appears over a motherboard.
By Andrea Fox 09:45 am July 19, 2023
Threat actors are using artificial intelligence for both designing and executing attacks on hospitals and health systems. HC3 used ChatGPT to show how bad actors leverage generative AI to design spear-phishing emails and malware.
Black and white image of two individuals fencing. One is jumping but the opponent finds the weak spot.
By Andrea Fox 10:38 am July 18, 2023
Artificial intelligence has changed the threat landscape, enabling new cybersecurity risks for health systems: more sophisticated social engineering, automated vulnerability intelligence gathering, endpoint detection evasion and more.
Physician and patient have a telehealth consult
By Andrea Fox 10:59 am July 14, 2023
University of Texas researchers found that symptoms of certain diseases are more difficult for patients to communicate and doctors to observe over video. Other limitations mean little cost-reduction benefit from telehealth when compared to in-person care.
Physician at computer
By Andrea Fox 10:58 am July 14, 2023
Health Care Service Corporation is using augmented intelligence to accelerate prior authorization – up to 1,400 times faster – and an AI tool that references historical authorizations and claims to authorize treatment "within seconds," the company says.
A doctor shows a patient some information on a tablet.
By Andrea Fox 10:47 am July 13, 2023
Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University developed three new natural language processing algorithms to extract housing, financial and employment data.
A patient in a hospital bed smiles and clasps the hand of a clinician.
By Andrea Fox 10:25 am July 13, 2023
The health system is one of six institutions that will use advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning for a $52M NIH-funded phenotyping research project targeting acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia and sepsis.
A doctor and patient look at patient records on a tablet.
By Andrea Fox 10:51 am July 12, 2023
Eleven healthcare organizations have also joined the Data Usability Taking Root project, which is designed to improve the quality and actionability of health information received by end users within their workflows.

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