Healthcare IT
AnMed Cyberattack Day 5: The Clinics Are Open, Imaging Isn't
On day five, 93 of AnMed's 107 listed locations are open. Almost every closure left on the board is a diagnostic service, and the pattern is the lesson.
Healthcare IT
Healthcare IT
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Grok: HIPAA BAA in July 2026
Five coding tools, five different answers on HIPAA BAA coverage — with conditions that matter and vendor language that changed within the past month.
Healthcare IT
DentaQuest Breach: 15 Million Notified, 2.6 Million Leaked
DentaQuest is notifying more than 15 million people after a three-day intrusion in May. The dataset ShinyHunters published covers 2.6 million.
Healthcare IT
Rhode Island's AI Scribe Law: Notify and Review, Not Opt-Out
Rhode Island's new AI scribe law is billed as an 'opt-out' mandate, but the statute requires only that providers notify patients and review the AI's notes for accuracy — no opt-out, consent, or penalty in the text.
Healthcare IT
Yale New Haven Picked Rad AI Over PowerScribe One
The conventional read on the PowerScribe 360 sunset was that big health systems would default to PowerScribe One. Yale New Haven moved its radiology reporting to Rad AI instead — and the demand data suggests it isn't alone.
AI
Two Days of Phone Troubleshooting. Claude Code Needed 15 Minutes.
Five users couldn't reliably hear callers on their softphones, and a day and a half of conventional troubleshooting pinned it to their PCs without explaining it. I pointed Claude Code at a broken machine and a working one. Fifteen minutes later it had the root cause, the fix, and two bonus findings.
AI
I Tripped Fable 5's Safety Guardrails on Day Two
Two days into the Fable 5 window, a binary export of blank mammography templates tripped Anthropic's new safety classifiers — cybersecurity and biology at once. Then writing this post tripped them again. Both times, the quiet handoff to Opus 4.8 worked exactly as advertised.
Healthcare IT
Cortechs Brings Quantitative MRI Into PowerScribe One
Cortechs.ai and Microsoft will route NeuroQuant and OnQ Prostate results straight into the PowerScribe One report. For radiologists, the real win is ARIA surveillance and prostate RSI findings that land in the report instead of being dictated off a second screen.
Healthcare IT
Sirona Medical Takes Its Cloud-Native PACS Global With Everlight
A browser-based PACS I've followed for a few years just signed the kind of customer that tests the whole cloud-native premise: Everlight Radiology is putting 800 reading radiologists across six countries on Sirona Medical's RadOS platform.
Healthcare IT
HIPAA Security Rule Update Likely to Miss Its May 2026 Target
OCR's May 2026 target for finalizing the HIPAA Security Rule update is on track to slip — but the agency is enforcing the existing rule aggressively. Here's where the proposed rule stands, what OCR is actually doing today, and what healthcare organizations need to have in place either way.