As Americans grow older (the share of the population age 65 and over is expected to increase from 17 percent today to 23 percent in 2060) and develop more acute care needs (80 percent of Americans over 65 have at least one chronic condition), older adults and their families will increasingly turn to senior care to meet their long-term...
Clinical trial management systems (CTMSs) allow health systems, academic medical centers, research sites and cancer centers to track all stages of clinical trials and serve as a hub for research operations.
Pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations (CROs) document aspects of clinical trials in a CTMS so they can demonstrate compliance with good clinical practices (GCPs), notes Ryan Kennedy, global...
By 2030, adults in the U.S. born from 1946 to 1964 will be 65 years old or older. Consistently, older adults have also shared that they would like to stay in their homes for longer.
As senior living and post-acute care organizations face staffing shortages, the need for resident safety improvements and competition with at-home aging, one aspect that could...
As 2021 came to an end, breaking news rocketed through the cybersecurity community: Researchers had discovered a serious security vulnerability in the widely used Apache Log4j utility that posed a significant risk to enterprise security.
Activity over the next couple of weeks followed what has become a familiar script for security professionals. Teams rushed to identify places where their organizations...
Recovering from a ransomware attack will cost a healthcare organization $1.85 million, on average, and take about a week to resolve, according to Sophos’ most recent report.
Healthcare organizations are also more likely than organizations in other sectors to pay the ransom, but when they do, they may not get back all their data. And just 78 percent of healthcare...
Remote work, virtual care technology and the proliferation of mobile devices for clinician workflows and Internet of Medical Things devices for patient care are increasing the attack surface for healthcare organizations. Some organizations can have as many as 10,000 medical devices within their environments.
Patient data is some of the most valuable information cybercriminals can target, meaning that healthcare organizations...
Remote patient monitoring tools help providers transition from episodic modes of care to continuous care, which supports preventive care initiatives and improves patient engagement. While RPM devices such as glucometers aren’t new, more RPM devices are receiving FDA approval, including blood pressure monitoring devices, pulse oximeters and continuous glucose monitoring devices.
To support clinicians in collecting data and patients in...
Technologies such as wearables and remote patient monitoring tools make it easier for patients to engage with their health providers and move healthcare toward a continuous care model rather than the traditional episodic model. However, these tools are also leading to increases in the amount of health data collected by providers. In addition to health data becoming more valuable...
