Physicians, nurses, administrators and other healthcare staff depend on rapid and efficient access to information to deliver high-quality patient care. Today, that means enabling a mobile workforce to access information wherever they are, whether in the office, at a patient’s bedside or at home in the middle of the night.
Simultaneously, HIPAA and other privacy regulations require the careful safeguarding...
The healthcare industry in the U.S. is in the midst of major change, from evolving patient expectations to hybrid approaches to care. As many healthcare organizations continue their digital transformation journeys, the technology that helps deliver care will also evolve. So, what will the landscape look like for the healthcare IT workforce?
The U.S. government is keenly interested in bolstering...
Rose Gilligan had an urgent goal when she joined the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) in 2019: to get “out of the data center business.”
The organization’s on-premises data center was sprawling and inefficient, with hardware from multiple vendors. A number of servers had aged out of support, and some systems were redundant. For instance, the association had rolled...
The digitalization of healthcare has increased the demand for IT systems monitoring and made it a mission-critical undertaking for health systems’ IT departments.
Brian St. Jean, presales system engineer at Paessler, a monitoring software company, says IT systems monitoring should occur in four areas: digital medical devices, the health system’s integration engine, communication between disparate medical systems, and traditional IT...
For healthcare organizations squaring off against today’s sophisticated cybercriminals, the stakes are high: A successful breach can result in potential disruptions to patient care, loss of private health data, reputational damage and even the risk of legal action.
Incident response programs help mitigate the impact of such events by enabling healthcare providers to act swiftly and thoroughly in the event...
Clinical decision support systems have come a long way from their early implementations in the 1970s. As stand-alone systems that were expensive to build and difficult to use — and given the legal and ethical resistance at the time to using computers to practice medicine — CDSSs tended to be restricted to “academic pursuits,” as a Nature article put...
Clear communication and real-time collaboration are critical to delivering lifesaving healthcare. From landline phones and public address systems to pagers and smartphones, clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) has undergone major shifts, especially over the past few decades.
But communicating and collaborating in a healthcare setting can be disjointed and inflexible, depending on the approach, which can impact how clinicians treat...
Virtual care tools such as virtual ICUs, telehealth and remote patient monitoring are making it easier for healthcare organizations to care for patients amid clinician shortages. As organizations look to expand their virtual care programs, it’s important for them to consider their goals first rather than any specific technology solutions.
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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.
The energy for...
