COVID-19 thoroughly dominated American life last year, contributing heavily to the kind of despair that drives drug overdose deaths, which soared last year as well.
This worrisome trend has intensified long-running concerns about how drugs like opioids find their way to abusers’ hands in the first place. One point of vulnerability stems from our healthcare systems, including employee diversion, a problem so big and complex only sophisticated computing can address it.
Over 81,000 drug
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Dynamic Care Demands Flexible Solutions: Filling Gaps in Acute Care
Healthcare professionals know that patient care never stands still from admission through discharge, but particularly when it comes to acute care settings. Critically ill patients are one of the most complex populations to care for, with their condition often deteriorating quickly and unpredictably. Coordinating care to safely monitor these patients across numerous care settings and facilities is a daunting task and the solutions that care teams rely on often can’t keep up. Gaps, delays, and
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How the Pandemic Underscores the Importance of Health IT in Employee & Occupational Health
“I have received more recognition, interest and support in the last year than in the previous two plus decades of my occupational health career.”
These were the words spoken to us recently by the medical director of a Fortune 500 corporation reflecting on the dramatically increased attention he was receiving from the C-suite of his organization following the COVID-19 outbreak. Despite the global turmoil that the COVID-19 pandemic has left in its wake, a revitalized focus on taking the best
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3 Lessons Learned from Pandemic-Era Clinical Development Regulatory Practices
The pandemic has given rise to new norms in drug development that will influence the future of the industry as we know it. The world has been in urgent need of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic tools. In view of this, regulators have demonstrated unprecedented flexibility and collaboration with key industry players to support the delivery of treatments to the market. As we near the other side of the pandemic, it is worth reflecting upon the adoption of non-traditional processes to
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5-Step Guide to Hiring AI Talent for Digital Health, Biotech & Life Sciences Companies
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will disrupt healthcare's destiny for good. Here are five steps digital health startups can take to find the premier talent to get the job done.
Not too long ago, AI was the topic of futuristic movies. What was once a fictional draw at the Box Office is now a reality in offices worldwide. AI is everywhere and rapidly transforming the way we work. What remains scarce though is the technical talent in healthcare to see this tech revolution through.
AI
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Stronger Together: A Remedy to Third-Party Cyber Risk in Healthcare
Controlling healthcare costs while delivering faster and better patient care is predicated upon the secure digitization and distribution of health information, from clinicians to medical devices to EMR and EHR systems, and more. The healthcare blueprint looks and operates much differently from what’s built for other industries, with vendors and other third parties supplying most of the components that make up today’s healthcare provider infrastructure. It’s increasing the attack surface area,
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Why Healthcare Innovation Needs Human-Centered Principles
Millions of people around the world have lost their health as a result of the pandemic. Millions more have lost loved ones. Trillions of dollars have been spent fighting the virus and restoring life post-pandemic, while many families have lost income, savings, or both.
COVID-19 has no doubt been catastrophic, but let it also be the wake-up call we need to improve experiences for both patients and healthcare providers alike. In a new era increasingly shaped by remote care, digital tools,
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What COVID-19’s Attack on Healthcare Cybersecurity Taught Us About Its Shortcomings
In the early chaos of the coronavirus pandemic, the healthcare industry struggled to keep up with an influx of patients amidst a shortage of necessary resources. During this time, healthcare staff naturally prioritized the health and safety of their patients, but this led to a marked decline of cybersecurity measures, leaving themselves open to attacks.
Cybercriminals took advantage of the opportunity, and since the start of the pandemic to late 2020, cyberattacks on healthcare firms in the
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How AI is Enabling Next-Generation Insights from Biomedical Data
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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