At the end of 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services outlined its ongoing cybersecurity strategy for the healthcare industry amid an increase in cyber events. Concerns about patient safety and data security sparked nonprofit accreditation body the Joint Commission to issue a “sentinel event alert” on healthcare cybersecurity.
Healthcare organizations are well aware (and constantly reminded) that...
Artificial intelligence holds exciting potential for healthcare organizations. From aiding clinical and administrative workloads to improving communication with patients and providing clinical decision support, many healthcare organizations are interested in how AI capabilities can benefit their patients, workforce and operations. However, some of them aren’t as ready for AI adoption as they may think.
Dr. Anthony Chang, chief intelligence and...
Innovation is vital for health systems as they seek to improve patient outcomes and experiences, mitigate clinician burnout and address health equity. Innovation teams can even help organizations tackle revenue diversification.
“Innovation is not just vital but absolutely existential,” said AVIA CEO Linda Finkel, who moderated a session on “Health Systems’ Big Bet on Innovation” at ViVE 2024 in Los...
“The way for rural healthcare to succeed is to make it easy to find a doctor, to be a doctor and to pay a doctor,” said Bob Lindner, chief science and technology officer at Veda Data Solutions, during a ViVE 2024 education session on the challenging rural healthcare landscape. “All of these three things have challenges that can be...
As healthcare organizations continue to face cybersecurity concerns and workforce constraints, industry leaders are still finding ways to push forward on their digital transformation journeys and prioritize innovation where they can.
Some 85 percent of healthcare leaders expect to boost spending on technological solutions into 2024, according to IDC research, and top areas of investment include telemedicine and remote patient...
As the healthcare industry continues to move toward cloud-based services and technology, providers are exploring migrations of their electronic health record applications to public cloud environments, where advantages include lower costs, improved flexibility and integration with new technologies.
Healthcare organizations using the EHR platform Epic can consider migrating to Azure, Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, for everything from disaster recovery (DR) to...
Within the first 90 days on the job as CISO of home healthcare services provider Amedisys, Richard Kaufmann was dealt a bad hand: The organization’s security information and event management system went down.
“SIEM is the meat and potatoes of any security department,” Kaufmann says. “There I was, new to the organization and still trying to figure things out, and...
The demand for better patient experiences requires investment in interactive digital displays, which help improve various touchpoints in hospitals and offer significant benefits for both patients and providers.
From helping people navigate hospital hallways to enhancing clinician-patient engagement, displays have become an essential element of optimizing the hospital experience and improving patient rooms, waiting areas and hospital cafeterias.
Samsung’s displays transform...
