Policy and market changes are freeing up the data flowing from provider organizations to health plans, but they are not promoting adequate data transfers from health plans back to the providers. The resulting information asymmetry is creating a power imbalance that is benefitting health plans at the expense of physicians and their patients. To address this, it’s important for healthcare...
What does it mean to transform healthcare? For some, it means centering patients in conversations about their care and interactions with the healthcare system. For others, it means using tools such as artificial intelligence to support clinical decision-making. Many in the field are also focused on improving access to care with virtual care solutions.
To celebrate the leaders, researchers and...
Healthcare organizations have an abundance of applications to support operations, administration, research and clinical workflows across departments. The sheer number of apps can lead to redundancies and vulnerabilities.
Modernizing a health system’s application infrastructure can improve workflow efficiencies and security while lowering management and maintenance costs. However, many healthcare IT leaders struggle with getting started.
IT leaders say they plan to...
Modernizing and optimizing applications can create a major impact on workflow efficiencies throughout a healthcare organization. However, the process requires time, money and resources that some organizations may not have, leaving technology and clinical teams operating in an IT landscape complicated by technical debt.
According to a 2023 report from the IBM Institute for Business Value, 83 percent of North...
Healthcare relies on a range of digitally connected services, from ubiquitous electronic health record (EHR) and telehealth systems to back-end scheduling, monitoring, analytics and workforce management tools. These applications exist in highly varying states. While some may be updated weekly, others run code written decades ago on mainframes that manufacturers may no longer support.
To further optimize care delivery and...
As much as generative artificial intelligence is helping healthcare organizations to increase clinical and administrative productivity, it’s also proving to be a useful tool for bad actors. According to a recent warning from the FBI, cybercriminals are using AI to orchestrate highly targeted and customized phishing attacks.
Malicious actors conduct social engineering-driven phishing attacks by leveraging generative AI to craft...
Healthcare IT managers are held to a higher standard than other IT groups when it comes to information security. Patient data and other personal identifiable information are considered the most sensitive data in any commercial environment. A system outage could impact orders for diagnostic procedures or lifesaving medication. Healthcare IT teams also have to meet a higher level of...
At the end of March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discussed its plans to create a centralized resource to help improve cybersecurity coordination for healthcare.
These plans come amid the fallout from the Change Healthcare cyberattack that rocked the industry when it was announced in February. An American Hospital Association survey conducted in early March found that...
Healthcare security leaders have a lot on their plates. IT teams must stay up to date on security best practices and threats while handling other initiatives amid staff turnover and skills shortages. As healthcare organizations continue to deal with an influx of phishing and ransomware attacks, bad actors have now added artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cyberattack methods.
According to new research...
