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How Healthcare Providers Can Bolster Cybersecurity Defenses and Protect Patient Data

by Nicko van Someren, Chief Technology Officer at Absolute Software 05/11/2023 Leave a Comment

Strengthening the Shield: How Healthcare Providers Can Bolster Cybersecurity Defenses and Protect Patient Data

In IBM’s 2022 Cost of a Data Breach report, the company revealed that the global average cost of a data breach was $4.35 million. In the healthcare sector, however, that number skyrocketed to $10.1 million. Why is an attack on a healthcare organization so much more costly? While part of this comes down to the fact that healthcare organizations often have big budgets, and so might be able to pay big ransoms, the biggest part of the answer is consequences. In there, real lives are at stake. Downed
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Rethinking Custom RTLS: Indoor Positioning Simplified as a Service

by Mohammed Smadi, Managing Director of PenguinIN 08/17/2022 Leave a Comment

Rethinking Custom RTLS: Indoor Positioning Simplified as a Service

For healthcare facilities, real-time location services (RTLS) were initially established on premise for patient safety to later become a priority in mainstreaming operations, improving patient care and experience and employee satisfaction.  Originally introduced to the industry as a security-centric measure to protect newborns, and prevent infant abduction, RTLS was a simple solution that has been effective, and facilities began to see a number of additional benefits. But it required a
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CTA Launches First-Ever ANSI-accredited Standard for AI in Healthcare

by Fred Pennic 02/25/2020 Leave a Comment

CTA Launches First-Ever ANSI-accredited Standard for AI in Healthcare

- The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announces the first-ever ANSI-accredited standard for the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, developed by more than 50 organizations from tech giants to healthcare leaders. - CTA convened 52 organizations – including IBM, Philips, BlackBerry, Doctor on Demand, Humetrix, American Medical Association, and AdvaMed – to develop this standard that provides a foundation to better
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BlackBerry Named HIMSS Analytics Certified Consultant to Guides Organizations Through Stages of INFRAM

by Jasmine Pennic 11/29/2018 Leave a Comment

BlackBerry Named HIMSS Analytics Certified Consultant to Guides Organizations Through Stages of INFRAM

Today, BlackBerry announced it has become a HIMSS Analytics Certified Consultant to guide healthcare organizations through the stages of the Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM), as well as ERAM. Professionally trained on the INFRAM, BlackBerry’s cybersecurity experts can assess a healthcare organization’s infrastructure architecture and help them achieve their desired INFRAM score.Understanding Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM)Similar to the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record
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BlackBerry Lands $20M VA Contract for Secure Enterprise Crisis Communication Network

by HITC Staff 01/21/2016 Leave a Comment

BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging

BlackBerry has been awarded a $20 million multi-year contract to support the VA's Notification System (VANS) and VA Personnel Accountability System (VA-PAS), courtesy of its subsidiary AtHoc. The recently acquired AtHoc networked crisis communication system will support 600,000 VA personnel as well as expanding scope and functionality of the system.  VA's Notification System (VANS) Overview The VANS system enables alerting across telephones, text, pagers, fax, desktops, smartphones, as
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BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging

by Jasmine Pennic 01/07/2016 Leave a Comment

BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging

BlackBerry are teaming up with digital health and wellness engagement platform Sharecare to provide consumers with better and more secure insights into their health. As part of the partnership, Sharecare and BlackBerry will integrate Sharecare's proprietary fractal voice analysis into BlackBerry's secure messaging to increase consumer self-awareness, reduce stress and improve relationships, all while providing the gold-standard in consumer privacy. Building on this, the companies will move
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Blackberry, NantHealth Launches First Secure Cancer Genome Browser

by Fred Pennic 12/09/2014 Leave a Comment

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  Blackberry and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong of NantHealth has announced the launch of the NantOmics Cancer Genome Browser™, the first secure clinical genome browser on the BlackBerry® Passport smartphone that places a super-computer and big data in the palm of a doctor’s hand.  For the first time, doctors will have  unprecedented access to patients’ genetic data to make the most informed treatment decisions at the bedside. Cancer Genome Browser Platform Overview Powered by BlackBerry’s
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