Faced with rising threats, healthcare IT leaders are increasingly turning to zero trust. As a cybersecurity framework, zero trust requires all users, both inside and outside an organization’s network, to be authenticated, authorized and continuously validated before they gain access to applications and data. Zero trust is a strategy, not a product.
Given the inevitability of breaches, zero trust works...
A healthcare command center functions as the central nervous system that facilitates, monitors and manages all communications, critical tasks, daily operations and emergencies within an organization.
Due to its critical role, a healthcare command center should seamlessly integrate various departments within the health system, and centralize and deliver relevant information among various facilities and clinics. As mission control, it must...
Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to be a helpful tool for healthcare organizations, especially when it comes to increasing efficiency in clinical and operational settings. However, many generative AI tools out there lack transparency regarding the data sets they’re trained on, which could lead to biases.
As the industry moves toward adoption and expanded generative AI use cases, organizations...
“Medicine is not made up of just feel-good stories,” said Dr. Christine Tsien Silvers, a healthcare executive adviser at Amazon Web Services. “I’ve cared for patients who my colleagues and I were not able to save, and I’ve seen people make mistakes.”
At the AWS Summit in June in Washington, D.C., she recounted the experience of a pediatric patient who was given...
Clinician burnout, negative patient experiences and poor health outcomes are all problems that generative artificial intelligence tools could mitigate. From automated documentation to clinical decision support, the technology has the potential to transform healthcare workflows and care delivery. Generative AI can handle rote tasks and give clinicians a more accessible look at patient data. However, the ability of an...
Earlier this year, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina announced it had acquired the North Carolina locations of FastMed, a national chain of urgent care clinics. Another insurer, Elevance Health, had closed on a deal to buy Paragon Healthcare and its network of 40 infusion centers across eight states. And Humana also was pushing further into the...
Technological innovations in healthcare are increasing at a rapid pace, especially as more and more healthcare organizations implement smart room and Patient Room ‘Next’ philosophies to streamline hospital operations and improve patient care. All of these sensors, cameras and other Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices in healthcare settings enable staff members to provide seamless, integrated care, and allow patients...
Just six months after OpenAI released the large language model ChatGPT, three Stanford University physicians penned a commentary wondering if LLMs “will reshape modern medicine.” Writing in 5Internal Medicine in April 2023, they continued, “Good or bad, ready or not, Pandora’s box has already been opened.”
LLMs, defined by Gartner as artificial intelligence models “trained on vast amounts of text...
To help rural healthcare systems better protect themselves from malicious actors in an age of AI-powered threats, Microsoft, the White House, the American Hospital Association and the National Rural Health Association are teaming up to provide these organizations with the resources they need to strengthen their cybersecurity posture.
The Microsoft Cybersecurity Program for Rural Hospitals will provide hospitals in rural...
Healthcare organizations have no shortage of data about their patients, not only from electronic health records (EHRs) but also from remote patient monitoring. So far, however, it has been difficult for IT and clinical leaders to translate this information into real-time insights that improve patient care and reduce treatment costs. This could be poised to change, according to presenters...
