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3 Healthcare Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2020

by HITC Staff 01/02/2020 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2020

The healthcare industry frequently struggles with data breaches and other cybersecurity incidents. That's likely because cybercriminals know the value of medical data. It's also problematic that healthcare information often gets passed between multiple parties and organizations, some of which may have insufficient security practices.  Attacks from malicious actors aren't ceasing, which means healthcare cybersecurity must remain a priority in 2020. But, what, specifically, should parties
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4 Ways to Make Security Training A Priority in Your Healthcare Organization

by Craig Smith, EVP of Operations at Absorb Software 12/26/2019 Leave a Comment

4 Ways to Make Security Training Priority in Your Healthcare Organization

cc Healthcare finally made the shift–it went digital. Overdue, perhaps – and maybe less rapid than the transition by other industries – but nonetheless notable. The age of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has dawned, and healthcare is riding the wave. You go, healthcare! For healthcare organizations, the advent of IoMT means new technology tools like smart medical devices extending and streamlining care throughout the hospital. This gives clinicians more mobility and more efficiency
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SoldierStrong Donates Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Exoskeleton to VA Boston

by Fred Pennic 12/20/2019 Leave a Comment

SoldierStrong Donates Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Exoskeleton to VA Boston

- SoldierStrong donates a spinal cord rehab exoskeleton that enables individualized gait therapy for patients with lower extremity weakness or paralysis to VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury Campus. - The donation will provide VA Boston with device options for their Veterans who meet the medical clearance and FDA criteria to allow for robotic-assisted ambulation post spinal cord injury. SoldierStrong, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing revolutionary medical
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Medigate and Cerner Partner to Advance Medical Device Security

by Fred Pennic 12/19/2019 Leave a Comment

3 Major Problems With the Medical Device and Wearables Market in 2019

- Medical device security and management solution Medigate is teaming up with Cerner to make it easier for healthcare organizations to establish and maintain strong network security, manage medical device security risks, and keep operations intact.- The average hospital room has nearly 15 to 20 devices that can connect to the cloud and apps. This is exactly why device security and healthcare technology must work together to ensure the protection of the most sensitive and valuable data.Medigate,
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FDA Breakthrough Status Granted for Heart Failure Algorithm by Eko

by Jasmine Pennic 12/18/2019 Leave a Comment

FDA Breakthrough Status Granted for Heart Failure Algorithm by Eko

- Eko announced the FDA has granted “breakthrough status” for an algorithm that could provide an easily accessible screening test for heart failure during routine physical exams.- This designation is awarded to novel innovations that demonstrate the potential to address unmet medical needs for life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases. - Heart failure is often left untreated until it’s too late due to costs, inaccessibility to echocardiogram testing, or misdiagnosis. With nearly six
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Social Determinants of Health Trends in 2020: The End of the Beginning?

by JohnMatthew Douglas, President And Founder at iPressForward, LLC 12/17/2019 Leave a Comment

Social Determinants of Health Trends in 2020: The End of the Beginning?

2020 will mark the end of the beginning of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). One would be remiss not to give pause and to consider how much time it has taken to get to this pivotal period in US health and healthcare delivery and, focus on the cornerstone “why” healthcare must, with a fierce urgency, step into the twenty-first century of US healthcare delivery. Meaning, it has taken nearly seventy years to go from the World Health Organization identifying the profundity of SDoH influence on
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Bridge Connector Raises Additional $5M for No Code, Health Integration Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 12/11/2019 Leave a Comment

Bridge Connector Raises $20M to Solve Health IT Interoperability Challenges

- Bridge Connector raises an additional $5M reaching a total of $25M in funding for its data-driven workflow automation to solve health IT interoperability challenges. - The additional financing will support Bridge Connector’s continued scalability and its upcoming launch of Destinations, a new “no-code” integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that connects health data systems without the need for code.- The company plans to close on Series B funding in the second quarter of 2020, further
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Digital Transformation In Healthcare Is Not Happening As Fast As It Should — And There’s One Reason No One is Talking About

by Juan Pablo Segura, Co-founder of Babyscripts 12/04/2019 Leave a Comment

Digital Health - Is It Worth It? How to Calculate ROI in Digital Health

At first glance, the healthcare field seems to be a goldmine for digital innovation. An overextended workforce, outdated protocols, hundreds of wasted hours in administrative tasks, a patient population that is wide open to digital solutions, a multitude of inefficiencies and redundancies — the opportunities for digital overhaul in healthcare are myriad. Yet every year the graveyard of digital health tools gets more crowded as innovators fail to overcome healthcare’s uniquely complex barriers to
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MaxQ AI Expands Partnership with GE Healthcare’s PACS Solution

by Jasmine Pennic 12/02/2019 Leave a Comment

MaxQ AI Expands Partnership with GE Healthcare's PACS Solution

- MaxQ AI and GE Healthcare announces the expansion of their partnership that will bring the power of AI-enabled solutions into hospitals and emergency rooms worldwide.- MaxQ AI’s ACCIPIO ICH and Stroke platform will be integrated into the next generation of GE Healthcare’s PACS and Universal Viewing platforms- This addition makes GE Healthcare the first to offer a comprehensive CT and PACS MaxQ AI offering. MaxQ AI, the industry-leading medical diagnostic AI company, today announced that the
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Industry 4.0 in Life Sciences: A “5C” Point of View

by Chetan Kothari, Director of Business Consulting, Life Science Division at NTT DATA Services 11/21/2019 Leave a Comment

Industry 4.0 in Life Sciences: A “5C” Point of View

McKinsey & Company describes Industry 4.0 as the next phase in the digitization of the manufacturing sector that is being driven by four disruptions: the astonishing rise in data volumes, computational power and connectivity, especially new low-power wide-area networks; the emergence of analytics and business intelligence capabilities; the new forms of human-machine interaction, such as touch interfaces and augmented reality systems; and the improvements in transferring digital instructions
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