With hospitals and outpatient facilities sprawled across the New York City metro area, Northwell Health knows how critical it is for clinicians to effectively team up for patient care.
The healthcare system had to rethink earlier strategies for clinical communication and collaboration, which included face-to-face meetings, phone calls and pagers at the bedside. A move to Microsoft Teams in 2019 provided...
If there’s a healthcare organization that knows something about building a strong data security foundation, it’s Kelsey-Seybold Clinic.
In fact, the multidisciplinary clinic system, with locations throughout the greater Houston area, “had ransomware before ransomware was cool,” according to CTO and CISO Martin Littmann. In 2015, an attacker used a zero-day variant of CryptoLocker to infect two machines at one...
Community Medical Centers had a growing demand for data analytics. So in 2017, when Javier Romo started as associate manager of business intelligence at the Stockton, Calif.-based nonprofit, he turned to legacy tools — mainly freeware — to meet the need. But, he says, “it just wasn’t working out.”
The following year, CMC implemented the Tableau data analytics platform, which...
The healthcare industry is still in recovery two years after the start of the pandemic. In a Twitter poll of almost 750 industry leaders, nearly 38 percent say that staff shortages are the biggest issue currently facing the healthcare system.
#HealthIT leaders: What's your biggest health IT concern?
— HealthTech Magazine (@HealthTechMag) April 4, 2022
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the...
While healthcare organizations are increasingly adopting health IT solutions, the number of devices clinicians carry has reduced, with many carrying one unified device. However, clinicians still rely on several apps in their workflows. Single sign-on solutions can reduce the amount of time clinicians and support staff spend logging in to multiple applications, giving them more time to dedicate to...
Ochsner Health recognized the value of mobile communication in medicine early on and has steadily increased its adoption, says Dr. Louis Jeansonne, chief medical information officer. Headquartered in New Orleans with 11 facilities in southern Louisiana and Mississippi, Ochsner now relies on features available on its Epic electronic medical records system to enable prompt, mobile communications for practitioners, says...
When ransomware attacks began targeting hospitals and schools a few years ago, cybercriminals found that payment was often swiftly made. For hospitals, cyberattacks could jeopardize patient care. Thus, healthcare systems drew scrutiny for their cyber vulnerabilities.
The primary method of delivery for ransomware is email. Healthcare systems depend on email, and workers are often too overworked to scrutinize their inboxes....
Providence turned to data analytics in the cloud to better manage the rise in patients during a COVID-19 surge in 2020. The health system’s clinical analytics team developed data analytics tools that gave its leaders real-time information on patient volume, hospital staffing levels and the supply of ventilators and personal protective equipment throughout its 52 hospitals.
The organization also ran...
The right laptop plays a huge role for clinicians and patients, from holding, transferring and managing sensitive patient data to processing payments and discharging. To perform these tasks effectively, laptops need to be fast, durable and versatile.
Today’s healthcare laptops should address productivity, stronger security and portability. These are not only the technology needs that healthcare requires, whether for charting...
Nurses are the backbone of healthcare organizations, managing not only the care and safekeeping of patients, but also serving as the communication hub between physicians and other caregivers.
Thanks to their in-depth knowledge of facility and patient workflows, nurses may be the first to identify cybersecurity pain points and issues that others might not see.
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