COVID-19 caught the world off-guard, sending governments, populations, and the entire healthcare community — physicians, nurses, scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers included — scrambling to discover and deliver rapid solutions as millions of lives hanging in the balance.
The heroic efforts of everyone involved have at last brought the end into view; now, as we begin to emerge from the pandemic and are able to assess its long-term impact, one important
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3 Ways Healthcare Orgs Can Work to Prevent Insider Security Threats
Though it’s often “highly sophisticated” or “nation-state” attackers that make headlines, the truth is that healthcare’s most overlooked cybersecurity threats are within the IT ecosystem. In fact, according to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, nearly 40 percent of all global security incidents in 2020 were caused by inside actors. These insider threats are often not malicious in nature, but accidental errors, such as employees clicking on phishing links, using weak passwords, or
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Why The Future of Healthcare Coverage is State-Based Exchanges, and It’s a Promising Road Ahead
It is essential for Americans to have a streamlined and cost-effective path to obtain and retain healthcare coverage.
Recent events, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastation it brought to our healthcare and economic systems, continue to underscore the catastrophic impacts of not providing such an option – and this has been upheld by the Supreme Court in their recent decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
It’s an exciting time for us as Health IT
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How Technology Is Powering the Future of Personalized Health
Unprecedented innovation and collaboration across the healthcare industry in the past year has presented a clear direction towards a patient experience that is precise, personalized, and human. The consumer-first mindset and the digital technologies that transformed e-commerce are changing healthcare as we know it— transforming patients from passive recipients of clinical services to active participants in their own health.
Healthcare consumers are becoming beautifully and wonderfully
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How Health IT is Helping Hospitals Achieve Faster Patient Transitions and Reduce Length of Stay
COVID-19 served as a brutal reminder that streamlining patient transitions from one care setting to another is critical – and even more so when hospital beds are at a premium. Even with less revenue flowing in, hospitals were still expected to quickly adapt as rising infections caused unexpected surges in hospitalizations. Better care coordination improves the patient experience and significantly lowers hospitals' costs by reducing the length of stay. In fact, one healthcare organization
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Risk Mitigation: Strengthening Trust in AI for Healthcare
Better clinical decision support, population health interventions, patient self-care, and research - these are just a few of the promising use cases of artificial intelligence (AI).
In addition to its benefits, AI can introduce risks that could potentially undermine trust in AI solutions and need to be addressed. These risks include, among others, promulgating bias inherent in source data; a lack of minimal transparency in computation algorithms; AI performance in a “lab setting” not
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4 Key Constraints Preventing Healthcare from Proper Cybersecurity
Healthcare was created to help people. So why is this industry the most heavily targeted by cybercriminals and ransomware attacks?
In the first half of 2020 alone, the Department of Health and Human Services saw a nearly 50% increase in the number of healthcare-related cybersecurity breaches. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the healthcare industry to operate at a level that it wasn’t prepared for, which meant emergency facilities were erected without proper security measures in place in order to
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Cloud Technology and Healthcare Evolution: Microsoft in the Spotlight
In April, software giant Microsoft made a lot of headlines announcing its multibillion-dollar acquisition of Nuance, the cloud-based clinical intelligence developer best known to healthcare providers for its Dragon and PowerScribe speech-recognition products.
Business analysts and reporters zeroed in on impressive financial details and utilization potential for “ambient AI” technologies in health settings. But more than anything, the deal shows how serious Microsoft is about its healthcare IT
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3 Ways IoT is Empowering Modern Healthcare Industry Today
Today’s healthcare systems are nothing like their predecessors of even a decade ago, and their growth is due, in large part, to the rapid evolution of technology. In recent years, e-health—the digital services that make it possible to improve the well-being of individuals, whether to prevent, diagnose or treat illnesses—has grown exponentially, with estimates that it will reach $234.5 billion by 2023.
In order for e-health devices to demonstrate their full value, healthcare networks
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A Pandemic Paves the Way for Improved Mental Healthcare Access
The pandemic left us floundering in many ways — our healthcare infrastructure was not prepared to handle a fast-moving, contagious virus that made it unsafe for in-person visits with a mental health provider, not to mention a virus that would keep the vast majority of Americans stuck in their homes for close to a year. Financial pressure, jobs lost, lives lost, social isolation, homeschooling, the fear of contracting the virus whose effects were largely unknown, especially for those already
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