Across industries, IT shops are adopting DevOps methodologies to improve app quality, decrease time to deployment and optimize organizational efficiency. But DevOps requires more than just new tools and processes. A successful initiative will emphasize not only the tools and skills needed to implement DevOps but also the culture change that necessarily comes with the upending of traditional development...
Island Hospital, in Anacortes, Wash., planned to upgrade its aging phone system in 2019. The hospital provides healthcare in a rural, seaside area in northwest Washington state and recognized the need to improve its telecommunications system to better serve its community.
“Our population is older,” says Network Engineer Shane Taylor. “They tend to want to use the phone to talk...
Along with technology such as cloud computing and telehealth, healthcare leaders have embraced artificial intelligence since the start of the pandemic. A survey conducted by Intel in late 2020 found that 84 percent of senior decision-makers were using or planning to use AI, up from 37 percent just two years earlier.
The top AI applications among those surveyed come as...
Digital health technology can play a major role in achieving health equity, as proven by several telehealth use cases during the pandemic, made possible by telehealth waivers.
To further explore how technology innovation can lower barriers to quality healthcare for all Americans, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has published a Request for Information on Strengthening...
The notion that “every company is a data company” is so widely accepted that it’s almost a cliché. Still, many organizations continue to struggle even to inventory and organize their data, much less leverage it in a way that helps them to arrive at transformative insights.
Data analytics can help organizations improve customer service, increase profits, enhance security, predict industry...
In an industry understandably laser-focused on all things cybersecurity, it can seem as if physical security gets short shrift. But talk to healthcare professionals across the country, or to the leaders of most hospital IT teams, and it quickly becomes clear that’s not the case.
“Hundreds of studies over the past 10 years all say the same thing,” says Paul...
Even as the healthcare industry continues to digitalize, the use of paper forms, contact sheets, medical records and a range of other document types requires the use of scanners.
More robust and compact than ever before, scanners in use by healthcare organizations are also contributing to data security by reducing the volume of paper forms containing sensitive patient health information....
Healthcare organizations are increasingly using mobile apps to connect with patients in the hospital and at home. Apps can be used for wayfinding on a health system’s campus, health monitoring or even to assist patients in completing physical therapy exercises. Adoption is on the rise, but who is developing these healthcare apps?
Internal app development was robust in healthcare five...
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred many healthcare organizations across the U.S. to adopt virtual care strategies where previously none existed. Almost overnight, most healthcare facilities had to become experts in remote doctor visits.
But many rural hospitals and doctor’s offices were already moving in that direction to provide better treatment options for patients in areas where traveling to a central facility...
When patient consultant Stacy Hurt accompanied her son, who is nonambulatory and immunosuppressed, to dozens of specialists in 2006, she hoped at least some of the visits would take place virtually. But at the time, she was told it couldn’t be done.
More than a decade later, following the accelerated adoption of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hurt would...
