When healthcare’s IT infrastructure was largely limited to servers in closets, it wasn’t hard to monitor system performance, access and security. But in an era of Software as a Service tools, and in an industry where consumers have the right to access their data, that can get complicated.
“You used to be able to just power down and reboot,” says...
At the end of 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services outlined its ongoing cybersecurity strategy for the healthcare industry amid an increase in cyber events. Concerns about patient safety and data security sparked nonprofit accreditation body the Joint Commission to issue a “sentinel event alert” on healthcare cybersecurity.
Healthcare organizations are well aware (and constantly reminded) that...
Artificial intelligence holds exciting potential for healthcare organizations. From aiding clinical and administrative workloads to improving communication with patients and providing clinical decision support, many healthcare organizations are interested in how AI capabilities can benefit their patients, workforce and operations. However, some of them aren’t as ready for AI adoption as they may think.
Dr. Anthony Chang, chief intelligence and...
Innovation is vital for health systems as they seek to improve patient outcomes and experiences, mitigate clinician burnout and address health equity. Innovation teams can even help organizations tackle revenue diversification.
“Innovation is not just vital but absolutely existential,” said AVIA CEO Linda Finkel, who moderated a session on “Health Systems’ Big Bet on Innovation” at ViVE 2024 in Los...
“The way for rural healthcare to succeed is to make it easy to find a doctor, to be a doctor and to pay a doctor,” said Bob Lindner, chief science and technology officer at Veda Data Solutions, during a ViVE 2024 education session on the challenging rural healthcare landscape. “All of these three things have challenges that can be...
As healthcare organizations continue to face cybersecurity concerns and workforce constraints, industry leaders are still finding ways to push forward on their digital transformation journeys and prioritize innovation where they can.
Some 85 percent of healthcare leaders expect to boost spending on technological solutions into 2024, according to IDC research, and top areas of investment include telemedicine and remote patient...
As the healthcare industry continues to move toward cloud-based services and technology, providers are exploring migrations of their electronic health record applications to public cloud environments, where advantages include lower costs, improved flexibility and integration with new technologies.
Healthcare organizations using the EHR platform Epic can consider migrating to Azure, Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, for everything from disaster recovery (DR) to...
Within the first 90 days on the job as CISO of home healthcare services provider Amedisys, Richard Kaufmann was dealt a bad hand: The organization’s security information and event management system went down.
“SIEM is the meat and potatoes of any security department,” Kaufmann says. “There I was, new to the organization and still trying to figure things out, and...
