In rural southern Maryland, on a peninsula between the Patuxent River and the Chesapeake Bay, CalvertHealth has evolved along with its growing community. The health system, which celebrated its centennial in 2019, has evolved from a single two-story building into multiple modernized facilities, becoming a major private employer in Calvert County.
Melissa Hall, who became CalvertHealth’s chief nursing officer and...
According to the Pew Research Center, the use of technology and social media among older adults continues to grow, and experts believe the trend will hold as more baby boomers reach retirement age.
“When you look at adults 65 and older, they have smartphones, they have tablets, they have wearables and they have smart home devices,” says Sheri Rose, CEO...
Burnout is taking its toll on healthcare. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy notes that half of healthcare workers report symptoms of burnout that range from insomnia to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. A Bain survey found that 25 percent of clinicians are considering switching careers, with burnout the No. 1...
The days of simply relying on perimeter defenses to keep a healthcare organization secure are long gone as enterprise needs evolve beyond rigid confines.
East-west network traffic monitoring allows organizations to understand the behavior within their networks, offering up a blueprint for how they might want to operate in the cloud. This monitoring also feeds directly into incident response and...
The volume of data being collected in the healthcare industry is increasing rapidly. If researchers and healthcare organizations can access quality data sets, they could unlock new insights to drive improved health outcomes.
This is especially useful in clinical trials, where pharmaceutical companies and researchers are actively working toward new treatments. Real-world data and real-world evidence can help scientists to...
Patient care requires collaboration and information sharing between different departments or between primary care physicians and specialists. But protecting patient privacy and security is paramount, which can make file sharing a lot more difficult than attaching a health record to an email and pressing send.
Healthcare-related files can also be quite large, especially if they include items such as X-rays,...
Most healthcare settings are tough places for mobile devices to survive in, due to accidental drops, moisture, exposure to harsh chemicals and the demands of always-on services.
Healthcare IT teams also face challenges safeguarding patient and staff information to meet regulatory safety measures amid increasing cyberattacks. Then, there is the clinician demand for mobile tools that can be used without...
As reliance on streaming services and other internet-dependent devices grew among residents of Eskaton’s affordable housing communities, a networking upgrade was sorely needed.
What the organization had installed over a decade ago met the needs of the time, says Therese ten Brinke, executive director of innovation and impact, but now they needed to adapt to changing expectations for high-speed internet.
“Even...
From a volunteer effort in the late 1960s to a robust Federally Qualified Health Center, Stockton, Calif.-based Community Medical Centers continues to adapt to patient care needs.
That includes evolving its data analytics strategy, which previously involved mostly freeware and a single-person team. But with a growing demand for better analytics to drive operations and provide whole-person care to underserved...
“Health IT has such potential to reduce diagnostic error and tailor care through precision medicine to assist in the diagnosis of diseases and targeting of treatment to individual patients using real-time data,” said Nikki Bratcher-Bowman, COO and principal deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
In her opening keynote at...
