Trend Micro partners with Nvidia on AI-driven cybersecurity

According to Reuters, Trend Micro is presenting new cybersecurity tools that run on Nvidia chips at this week’s Computex conference.

WHY IT MATTERS

Healthcare organizations are using AI to alleviate documentation burdens between groups and can pull data from their networks – including electronic health records – into one place for hackers to target in their efforts to hack, ransom and sell healthcare data.

“They penetrate the enterprise and find a huge wealth of information,” Kevin Simzer, Trend Micro’s chief operating officer, told Reuters.

Simzer also told Taiwan’s Telephone Service on Sunday that the tools could also be used to protect data fed into AI systems, including generative AI chatbots that may contain protected information.

For example, Nvidia AI computing is being used to improve patient risk assessments.

The National Health Research Institute and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan are using AI to predict the risk of chronic diseases by analyzing various genetic and environmental parameters, the company said.

“This level of analysis was previously infeasible due to computational limitations,” said Dr. Hung-Yi Chiou, director of the Institute of Population Health Sciences at Nvidia’s NHRI blog post Sunday.

THE BIG TREND

Many technology platforms that healthcare organizations use now have AI integrations that leverage vendor data, and many more will emerge in mobile applications that healthcare providers and patients can access.

Last year, Salesforce announced data cloud automation and AI integrations that create real-time patient profiles from EHR data and other systems. Many vendors offer similar chatbot-based access to streamline operations.

Amanda Bury, Chief Commercial Officer at Infermedica, a digital healthcare company specializing in AI-powered symptom analysis and patient triage systems, said Healthcare IT news last month that AI could optimize the patient portal and mobile experiences.

“By integrating AI tools into well-known patient-facing technologies, such as patient portals or mobile applications, healthcare organizations can help patients find the most appropriate care options, including telemedicine, based on their specific health profile, medical history and current symptoms.” Bury said.

While genAI can help better meet patient needs, hackers who phish or break into these systems can ask specific questions to obtain the underlying data.

ON THE RECORD

“That’s what we’re going to look for and make sure we see it first and we can make sure it doesn’t go any further,” Simzer told Reuters.

Andrea Fox is editor-in-chief of Healthcare IT News.
Email: afox@himss.org
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