The health technology landscape is a rapidly evolving ecosystem where innovation and risk coexist. Developers and manufacturers must balance technological advancements with a rigorous approach to risk management. This entails navigating complex regulatory frameworks, ensuring supply chain security, and prioritizing cybersecurity. By adopting a holistic perspective and proactively mitigating potential risks, health technology companies can drive innovation while safeguarding patient safety and
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Hyperautomation in Healthcare: Transforming IT with Benefits and Risks
Healthcare is navigating an era of unprecedented technological evolution while contending with rising cybersecurity threats and increasing demands on IT systems. Amid these challenges, hyperautomation emerges as a transformative strategy capable to revolutionize operations, enhance security, and drivie efficiency. However, achieving its full potential requires thoughtful implementation and a proactive risk management.
This article explores hyperautomation’s transformative
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The Role of Multimodal Security in Protecting Critical Healthcare Data
Healthcare organizations face an increasingly sophisticated array of threats, including AI-generated attacks like deepfakes. These attacks target critical healthcare data, putting patient safety and institutional integrity at risk. Traditional identity security measures, such as the use of password authentication, while foundational, are no longer sufficient to address these challenges. As biometrics become more pivotal in digital interactions across industries, concerns about accuracy,
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Building Trust in Healthcare Marketing in 2025: The Hidden Ingredient for Successful Campaigns
In the world of healthcare marketing, crafting an effective campaign involves numerous elements: technology, precise audience targeting, budget considerations, timing, objectives, and the coordination of multiple stakeholders. Yet, there is one crucial factor that underpins all these components, one that is often overlooked but essential Is trust. Trust is the invisible thread that binds agencies, vendors, platforms, and clients together. When nurtured, it transforms an ordinary campaign into a
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Open Source in Life Sciences: Balancing Innovation and Compliance
Data science teams in the life sciences industry are experiencing a significant change that will transform how clinical data is analyzed, opening the door to new possibilities for innovation. The transition isn’t happening overnight, but such incremental approaches are necessary to ensure success in such a highly regulated environment.
For decades, SAS was “it” in life sciences. If you wanted to be a data scientist in the industry, you had to know SAS. However, recently there has been a move
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What’s Next for Women’s Health in 2025? 5 Trends That Are Driving The Sector
Women’s health is finally getting the treatment it deserves. Historically overlooked, downplayed, and neglected, investors have spotted the largely untapped opportunity the sector presents. Venture capital investment in the women’s health sector has surged by 314% over the past five years, and despite the recent slowdown in startup funding, mid-year data shows the sector is on track for another record-breaking year.
While women spend 25% more time in poor health compared to men, the prognosis
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Avoid These 6 Healthcare Survey Mistakes in 2025
When professionals from fields like healthcare talk to me about polling at MIT, they often assume that designing patient surveys will be easy. They have questions, patients have answers, and getting from Point A to Point B seems like it should be a simple matter of handing off a clipboard and a pen.
But as these professionals quickly realize, surveying people can be extraordinarily tricky, even when (maybe especially when) the topic is their own behavior and experiences.
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6 Ways Integrated Platforms are Transforming Provider Data for Payors
For decades, health insurance payors have relied on outdated legacy workflows, antiquated provider data management systems, manual data entry and internal departmental structures. All of this disjointed approach results in errors in provider data for payors. These challenges can occur at many points during the provider’s tenure with a payor including during the onboarding process; credentialing and re-credentialing; contracting phase or even updates such as address changes or patient panel
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The RCM Arms Race: How AI is Reshaping Healthcare Finance in 2025
As healthcare providers head into 2025, a technological arms race is reshaping revenue cycle management (RCM), with artificial intelligence (AI) emerging as the decisive factor between financial success and struggle. With approximately 46% of hospitals and health systems already utilizing AI in their RCM operations, the industry stands at a critical juncture where matching payer sophistication has become imperative for survival. This transformation represents a fundamental shift in how
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5 Vocal Biomarker Trends to Watch in 2025
In recent years, the use of AI-enhanced ambient listening tools has transformed the way clinicians utilize vocal biomarkers for cognitive and behavioral health assessments. As these technologies expand, clinicians are exploring use-cases for a wider range of languages, populations, and more conditions as well. Looking ahead to 2025, expect vocal biomarkers to play a more essential role in disease detection, offering valuable insights while saving time for both
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