Hospitals right now are working at full capacity, with bed occupancy around 75% in the U.S. and it is projected to rise even further. The hospital overcrowding ultimately leads to longer waits for care, delays, staff burnout, and poor patient treatment outcomes.
The good news is that technology is evolving fast and is here to reduce the hospital bed-shortage crisis. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is one of the solutions that helps reduce the burden on the providers, as it allows
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Multi-Vector Attacks: Why Healthcare’s Siloed Security Approach Is Failing Now
In football, it’s called an all-out blitz. In cybersecurity, it’s called a multi-vector attack.
Five years ago, most cyber attacks were of the single-vector variety: a phishing expedition or a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Now cyber criminals are more sophisticated, launching multi-vector onslaughts that might simultaneously involve those tactics plus attempts at data exfiltration, account takeover and credential stuffing.
By probing for multiple vulnerabilities at the same
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The $150B Problem: How Missed Appointments Crush Healthcare and Risk Lives
Nicole is a 35-year-old single mother living in Boston. She recently completed treatment for breast cancer and was scheduled for a follow-up screening. The clinic sent a single text message reminder and a letter. She intended to call and reschedule once things settled, but between juggling two part-time jobs and managing childcare, the appointment slipped by.
That screening was meant to catch any early signs of recurrence. When the first reminder failed, no system flagged her as at risk or
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The Robot vs. Mech-Suit Strategy: Deploying AI Wisely in Healthcare
Few today remember PayPal’s early competitors. And for good reason—PayPal was a pioneer of automation strategy, with innovations that enabled them to scale to eventually dominate their market. But that future wasn't always a given.
Shortly after surviving the dot‑com bubble burst, PayPal and its competitors were bleeding tens of millions of dollars each month to credit card fraud. With thousands of transactions flowing through these platforms every minute, the problem was far too vast for any
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3 Ways to Stabilize Hospital Operations Amidst Uncertainty: Costs, Labor, & Waste
Across the country, healthcare leaders are navigating unprecedented levels of uncertainty and complexity. Policy shifts, economic turbulence, supply chain instability, and widespread workforce strain have created a volatile environment. Given today's uncertainties, relying heavily on disconnected, outdated systems could make navigating the challenges ahead even more difficult. Many hospitals still rely on systems that are disconnected, outdated, and no longer sufficient for navigating today’s
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Solving Healthcare Data Silos: The Power of the Data Lakehouse Architecture
Data analytics stands as the foundation that supports individualised patient treatment while maximising operational capabilities and business development potential by using strategic resource distributions and analytic insights. Healthcare organisations collect enormous datasets from four primary sources, including Electronic Health Records (EHRs), IoT-enabled medical devices, medical imaging, and insurance claims. The various information sources exist as isolated data collections that present
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Huddle Up: Modernizing Patient Safety with Real-Time Intelligence
Patient safety and quality issues can result in suboptimal outcomes for patients and operational and financial challenges for health systems and hospitals.
Each year, an estimated 400,000 hospitalized patients experience preventable harm in the U.S., while more than 200,000 deaths are attributed to avoidable medical errors, according to the book “Medical Error Reduction and Prevention.” Medical errors are responsible for an estimated $20 billion in costs annually.
Avoiding these
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Agentic AI in Healthcare: Hype or Healthcare’s Best Co-Pilot?
“AI is going to replace doctors.”
It’s a provocative, yet increasingly common fear whispered in hospital corridors and debated in medical forums. For many clinicians, the idea that software could not only analyze data but in the case of Agentic AI, take action evokes a dystopian future of medical decision-making stripped of empathy, nuance and professional judgment.
But fear, in many cases, is a symptom of misunderstanding. And for Agentic AI,
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3 Non-Negotiable Practices for Emotional Recovery in Cancer Care
Clinicians rightly celebrate when treatment ends. Yet many patients leave our clinics still carrying the invisible weight of illness—anxiety, low mood, pain, and a fragile sense of self. The evidence says this is not rare, and it is not trivial. A 2025 umbrella review of cancer survivorship found pooled prevalence rates of 33% for depression and 31% for anxiety, with higher figures during periods of wider societal stress. These symptoms shape adherence, function, and quality of life, long after
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Future Ready Pharma: Why Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Redefines CRM
The life sciences industry is at a structural turning point. Engagement has expanded far beyond physicians to include payers, policymakers, care teams, and patient advocacy organizations. To remain competitive, organizations must orchestrate compliant, multistakeholder interactions while simultaneously accelerating product launches, breaking down internal silos, and delivering personalization at scale.
Against this backdrop, Salesforce’s Life Sciences Cloud (LSC) represents more than just a
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