Morning Headlines 1/3/25

Watsonville hospital says data of some patients may be at risk after cyber attack

Watsonville Community Hospital (CA) begins notifying patients that their data may have been compromised in a late November ransomware attack.

DoD announces completion of pilot to identify medical AI vulnerabilities

The DoD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office finds 800 potential vulnerabilities and biases during a recently concluded large language model pilot that compared three LLMs and their ability to enhance military medical care as a part of clinical note summarization and an advisory chatbot.

Implementation of Billing for Patient Portal Messages as E-Visits in a Large Integrated Health System

A Mayo Clinic analysis finds that patient portal messaging dropped 8.8% from the previous year after the health system implemented billing for select e-visits.