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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Conduct cybersecurity training for employees. One of hospital IT’s traditional concerns – hospital data stored in a vendor’s data center – can be a source of relief in a ransomware attack. Doing so raises awareness about phishing scams and other common attack vectors.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. Operational waste found in inefficient and frustrating processes and workflow is a huge contributing factor to staff burnout, compelling trained workers and professionals to leave their jobs in droves.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"In addition to the mass move to remote, and significant COVID-19 surge, our system was approximately halfway through a move to a single EHR platform. "There are miles between training and mastery. "Literally everything changed, and so we were only as good as our plan, which changed constantly in 2020," she said.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Many hospitals, health systems, and health plans still don’t have employees trained and don’t have the proper policies, procedures, and tech tools in place to be compliant, even with the two years of runway that was provided by legislators. However, EHR macros must accurately capture the patient’s condition on the day of the encounter.

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Will 2024 see a reboot of Google Glass-style headsets in Healthcare?

Lloyd Price

Growing interest in AR/VR in healthcare: Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have gained traction in various medical fields like surgery, training, and rehabilitation. Medical training: Trainees could use Glass to visualize procedures and anatomy in 3D,enhancing their learning experience.

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Weekender 5/3/19

HIStalk Weekender

Coming back full circle, there is still going to be a market for community hospital IT software but it will be one that is in long-term decline and largely a maintenance market that lives of the 16-20% annual software and maintenance feeds vendors charge (more if they host it). Lazlo Hollyfeld ). Vaporware? ). SelfInfllictedWound ).

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HIStalk Interviews Erine Gray, CEO, Aunt Bertha

HIStalk Interviews

The concept of social determinants of health is suddenly popular, but for hospitals, it often just means having a place to record the patient’s self-reported information. They either turn on assessments in their EHR or they use our assessments. I was a programmer by training. Some people call them referrals.

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