From the bedside to data centers, healthcare requires teamwork to ensure the highest quality of care. This has become increasingly clear when it comes to securing valuable healthcare data.
As vice president of IT at Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare, Kevin Torres also oversees the chief technology officer and CISO functions. Through key partnerships, Torres and his team have strengthened cybersecurity...
Cook Children’s Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas, has grown significantly over the past decade, opening a new hospital in 2023 and acquiring several clinics. The health system now has about 10,000 employees, according to CTO Steve Eckert, and it’s important to build resiliency, scalability and flexibility into its IT ecosystem as it looks to the future.
“We’ve grown...
As a leader in his health system’s push to leverage technology to improve clinical care, Dr. Jeetu Nanda spends much of his time focused on matters related to data.
“The goal is to have all of our decisions be data-driven,” says Nanda, chief medical information officer at Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health. The organization relies on Epic for its electronic health...
With the recent rise of telemedicine and the expansion of remote collaboration, the borders of healthcare delivery have stretched beyond hospital walls. Patients can consult specialists through virtual visits, and beside nurses can receive support from virtual nurses.
Making all of these digitally connected services work are likely a dozen or more applications running behind the scenes, whether it’s an...
I’d like to share my journey as a retired English teacher currently serving as the CIO and Chief security and privacy officer for Family Health Care in Northwest Michigan. How I got here is a fascinating story, though far too long to condense into one article. Suffice it to say that if an English teacher can become an IT...
Health systems are expected to continue navigating stormy financial waters in 2024, and they will likely look to restructure and streamline teams and processes to deal with resource constraints.
“Healthcare organizations are fraught with tight budgets yet have increased expenses and wages compared to pre-pandemic times,” says Shannon Germain Farraher, senior analyst for healthcare at Forrester. “This makes recovery difficult...
In its simplest form, a digital twin can be defined as a virtual model of a physical object. However, the technology is often more complicated than that. In healthcare, a digital twin could represent a population or even a human heart. The thing that differentiates a digital twin from a 3D model is that it must also act like...
Health systems undergoing digital transformation increasingly rely on massive amounts of data to propel everything from the clinical side to operations. As that seismic shift collides with today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, zero trust’s always-on approach to cybersecurity has become a requirement — not just a nice-to-have — for organizations of all sizes.
The zero-trust security model offers greater protection...
Resource constraints in the healthcare industry, already a significant challenge for nearly every healthcare provider, were exacerbated by the onset of the pandemic nearly four years ago, which impacted high-margin revenue contributions and increased complexity associated with remote care.
Beyond the revenue impact from clinical care associated with elective procedures, which were dramatically reduced during the pandemic, the overall complexity...
