Rural healthcare organizations face unique challenges when it comes to cybersecurity. With limited budgets but the same cybersecurity concerns as larger healthcare organizations, rural hospitals must find ways to secure cybersecurity funding to strengthen their security posture amid an evolving threat landscape.
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DevOps is gaining steam in healthcare as ongoing digital transformation and patients’ expectations reshape the industry.
Interest in adopting DevOps — the discipline of blending software development and IT operations — already existed in the healthcare industry before the COVID-19 pandemic. Kaiser Permanente, for example, shared its DevOps experience for its enterprise consumer digital strategy in 2018.
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The annual HIMSS conference wrapped up Friday in Orlando, Fla., with a closing keynote from Olympian Michael Phelps on mental health, his career and the pursuit of dreams.
“On those days where we are sore, we’re tired, we had a bad night or bad sleep — how can I get one little baby step forward? I don’t like taking steps...
Cybersecurity attacks are growing more sophisticated, and it’s important for healthcare organizations to understand who’s targeting them and how they can prepare. Sean Kanuck, EXEDEC founder and CEO and former national intelligence officer for cyber issues, gives an overview of today’s cybersecurity landscape and shares best practices.
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Imagine being able to manage chronic back pain without having to take a strong prescription medication, or learning how to successfully control emotional eating or smoking triggers using virtual technology. These are just a few of the medical applications of extended reality that Dr. Brennan Spiegel, director of health services research for Cedars-Sinai Health System, described during a recent...
A healthcare model for providing acute care for patients in the comfort of their homes, hospital-at-home programs have been used for decades in the U.S. Pioneered and trademarked by Johns Hopkins University, these programs have grown over the years and expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
That’s in large part due to a waiver from the Centers for Medicare and...
The cloud is becoming increasingly important in healthcare as organizations’ interest in data analytics and artificial intelligence continues to grow. Dr. David Rhew, chief medical officer at Microsoft, explains how the company is evolving its healthcare strategy to address the industry’s rising focus on data analytics and interoperability.
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From digital platform capabilities to data exchange standards, healthcare interoperability has often focused on the technological aspects of systems that exchange information with each other. But what about the people at the center of healthcare? Consider the experiences of a physician trying to learn more about a patient’s medical history, or a patient filling out intake forms for the...
The virtual care landscape has seen major transformations over the past few years, with pandemic-linked federal telemedicine waivers and the takeoff of video visits.
Now, many traditional healthcare providers have reached a point of comfort with telemedicine as the industry adjusts to evolving patient demands, workflow expectations and, in certain cases, limited resources. Next, organizations will look at how to...
Nursing shortages have made it crucial for healthcare organizations to improve nurses’ workflows — and health IT solutions such as hand-held devices with built-in barcode scanning, EHR-integrated workflows and clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) tools can make a difference.
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