Following the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare and a federal investigation into the attack that impacted healthcare billing and payment operations, cybersecurity was top of mind at this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society global conference and exhibition.
Healthcare has seen an uptick in cyberthreats over the past few years as more malicious actors discover the industry’s wealth of...
The electronic health record has transformed patient data collection, but it’s also created a documentation burden that is leading to clinician burnout. Clinicians are often left to collect data without understanding its purpose.
To mitigate the situation, healthcare organizations are adopting solutions such as artificial intelligence to automate notetaking and free clinicians to spend more time face to face with...
Healthcare worker burnout remains a critical issue in the industry amid ongoing concerns over current and projected shortages and growing patient expectations.
The U.S. surgeon general’s office issued an advisory in 2022 on the burnout crisis, highlighting statistics such as nurses spending 41 percent of their time on the electronic health record and documentation, and physicians spending two hours on...
Healthcare is experiencing a proliferation of Internet of Things devices related to patient care and smart hospital operations. While these devices provide organizations with valuable data on patient health and hospital environments, they can leave health systems vulnerable to cyberthreats.
Keith Duemling, senior director of cybersecurity technology protection at Cleveland Clinic, shares lessons he has learned on how to effectively...
About a third of Americans don’t have a primary care physician, according to a 2023 report from the National Association of Community Health Centers. Average wait times for new-patient specialty appointments have also seen an uptick in the past few years.
Healthcare organizations are trying to address these concerns by improving telehealth integrations and supporting process changes through a data-driven...
The annual HIMSS global conference and exhibition opened Tuesday morning with a sure-footed keynote session about the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in shaping healthcare’s future.
Hackensack Meridian Health CEO Robert Garrett’s optimistic approach to AI highlights the rapid changes the industry has seen since last year’s exploratory panel discussion. HIMSS24 unveiled more AI-powered solutions and partnerships for...
As healthcare organizations grapple with new artificial intelligence–powered solutions, a volatile cyberthreat landscape and difficult financial decisions, they may need a guiding hand to help contextualize things so they can evolve for the better.
Enter the newly modernized Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM) that HIMSS launched at the start of the year. The updated framework highlights five focus areas: cybersecurity, sustainability,...
Data is a huge untapped resource in healthcare — not because of a lack of data, but because providers, patients and payers generate data that is often unstructured, inaccurate and inaccessible. Data siloes exist across the industry. As healthcare looks to adopt AI solutions, it will need clean, accurate and accessible data sources that don’t compromise patient data privacy.
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When healthcare’s IT infrastructure was largely limited to servers in closets, it wasn’t hard to monitor system performance, access and security. But in an era of Software as a Service tools, and in an industry where consumers have the right to access their data, that can get complicated.
“You used to be able to just power down and reboot,” says...
