HACKED: Peachtree Orthopedics Medical Practice

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

By Staff Reporters

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A large orthopedic practice in Atlanta notified patients last week of a data breach. In a letter to patients, Peachtree Orthopedics warns personal information may have been exposed during an incident in April, 2023.

From April 14th to April 20th an unauthorized party gained access to the company’s network, and that information potentially impacted included patients’ “address, date of birth, driver’s license number, Social Security number, medical treatment/ diagnosis information, treatment cost and other financial and related information

This is the third hack Peachtree Orthopedics has reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the last seven years, according to federal data. According to HHS, this breach is impacting 34,691 patients.

LINK: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf

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Posted on July 23, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA

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ChatGPT’s Decline, the FTC and Microsoft

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA

By Staff Reporters

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ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022. It is notable for enabling users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language used. Successive prompts and replies are taken into account at each stage of the conversation as a context.

However, the accuracy of OpenAI’s generative language model appears to have declined much this Spring.

LINK: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt

A not-yet-peer-reviewed study by Stanford and Berkeley researchers of ChatGPT-4 and ChatGPT-3.5 found a huge difference in the chatbot’s answers between March and June of this year—often for the worse, something people were already reporting anecdotally online.

  • GPT-4 went from 97.6% accuracy in identifying prime numbers a few months ago to only…2.4% in June.
  • The newer version of the language model got better at fending off problematic prompts, like coming up with illegal money-making schemes. But rather than explaining why queries are troublesome, it’s now more likely to simply say something like, “Sorry, but I can’t assist with that.”
  • When asked to create computer code, GPT-4 generated functional work 52% of the time in March and only 10% of the time in June. The lines of code it provided weren’t wrong, but they started to be accompanied by non-usable text, which could create headaches for companies trying to integrate ChatGPT into programming workflows.

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Additionally, the FTC is looking into ChatGPT. The commission seeks to understand whether OpenAI has broken any consumer protection laws. OpenAI received a 20-page demand letter highlighting the commission’s concerns over its data security practices. Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard is likely to be affected if OpenAI is found in the wrong.

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PHYSICIAN LAYOFFS: Job Eliminations Across 66 Hospitals

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA

By Staff Reporters

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A report published by Becker’s Hospital Review highlights a large number of job elimination efforts that have been announced or already implemented across 66 hospitals, including the following:

  • As an organizational redesign measure, Oklahoma University (OU) Health has eliminated around 100 positions.
  • 200 healthcare jobs were cut by Oklahoma City-based Integris Health to curb expenses.
  • ProMedica in Toledo, Ohio, announced plans to lay off 262 employees in March.
  • 337 employees of New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center are likely to be laid off shortly.
  • 112 employees of Pikeville Medical Center in Kentucky were laid-off at the end of 2022.
  • Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas has already notified its workers that 970 jobs will be lost as it transitions to an emergency department.
  • California-based Kaweah Health in Visalia is likely to eliminate 94 positions.

These healthcare worker layoffs only reveal a part of the crisis because the complete closure of numerous hospitals is also on the horizon.

While the closure rate is faster for rural hospitals, urban hospitals are not safe either. In November 2022, Atlanta Medical Center (AMC) in Atlanta Georgia, announced its closure, leaving hundreds of workers jobless. This closure also had a severe adverse impact on the availability of trauma care in Atlanta. In 2019, the city council in Washington D.C. voted in favor of closing United Medical Center prior to COVID, leaving a healthcare gap during the pandemic.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

NOTE: The current trend of hospital closures and healthcare job cuts not only affects the healthcare workers and their families but also poses serious questions about the quality of healthcare in the country. Last year, McKinsey & Company predicted that by the end of 2025, the US healthcare system may face a shortage of up to 450,000 registered nurses [RNs].

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