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
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.
Healthcare IT
KLAS 2026: Epic Still Gains, but AI Is Eating the EHR-Upgrade Budget
Epic added 77 hospitals and Oracle Health lost 56 in the new KLAS report — but the more telling number is the 40 percent drop in hospitals making any EHR decision at all. KLAS attributes the freeze to policy uncertainty and a strategic pivot to AI.
Healthcare IT
FDA's Elsa 4.0 and the 40-System HALO Consolidation
The FDA shipped Elsa 4.0 on May 6 alongside HALO, a platform that consolidates more than 40 separate FDA application and submission systems into one. The capabilities are real and the architecture is defensible. The hallucination track record from Elsa 1.0 is still on the public record.