Technology CBS News Bay Area reports on an event held at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, Calif., that found nearly 40 children from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley handling a surgical robotics system. “Many parents are fighting to get their kids off their phones and limit screen…
Leaders of the “Five Eyes” cybersecurity agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States have united to issue a “call to action” that “the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming cyber risk, and we must act swiftly to remain ahead.” The agencies…
The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group, “a platform for collaboration among healthcare industry leaders and the government for more than a decade to address the most pressing security and resiliency challenges to the healthcare sector,” has published its Health Industry AI Cybersecurity Governance Framework Implementation Guide. HSCC…
Researchers from University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and UI Health are “challenging accepted beliefs about telesurgery” as a result of a $9 million project with the U.S. Office of Naval Research. According to UIC, “the researchers believe telesurgery — a surgeon operating on a patient in a different physical location…
The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has posted about the work of Archan Khandekar, MD, assistant professor of urologic oncology at its Desai Sethi Urology Institute (DSUI), who has led the implementation of a HIPAA-compliant artificial intelligence (AI) agent that is now live in University of Miami Health…
One of the greatest opportunities in sterile processing today is not simply improving workflows. The greater opportunity is developing operational intelligence. Healthcare organizations measure what they prioritize. Sterile processing has historically existed in a space where it is operationally essential, yet strategically undermeasured. Most perioperative leaders can quickly identify core…
Harvard Business Review last week published a fascinating article that discusses why perioperative team design is often a more decisive factor in surgical success than advanced technology is. The article was written by Antonio García Romero, assistant professor of healthcare innovation academic director of the Disrupting Healthcare with Generative AI program,…
Two ASCs publicly reported data security incidents over the last week. Covenant Health’s Advanced Family Surgery Center, formally known as Surgery Center of Oak Ridge (Tenn.), LLC, stated that “on or around November 26, 2025,” it “became aware of a network intrusion that affected a limited number of systems” and…
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in collaboration with the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre and “other international and U.S. partners,” has released guidance for organizations on adopting agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The guidance, titled “Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services,” outlines “key security challenges…
Anesthesiologist Andrew Fisher, MD, assistant professor at Medical University of South Carolina, last week published a thoughtful article, “The Perioperative AI Reality Check: Why Hospital Tech Fails Without Clinician Co-Design.” The opinion piece in healthcare technology news publication HIT Consultant views “AI-powered solutions” for perioperative care through the same lens…
